This is a new feature that I will try to maintain diligently. Although admittedly I see this feature becoming a Bush Bashing regular, but lets see how that works out.

The prize this week goes to our humble president, Thabo Mbeki. I’m sure that if this feature started a while ago, he would have won many such awards, but none-the-less…

Thabs, you win Pitkop of the week for your rather intelligent comment recently at the summit at the UN buildings while chairing a meeting with the Security Council and the African Union.

Journalist: “President Mbeki, do you believe there is a crisis in Zimbabwe?”

Mbeki: “No … there’s … there’s a … there’s … there’s been an electoral process that has taken place in Zimbabwe.

Reeeeeal smart buddy!