Just as South Africans waited with baited breath to hear the outcome of the disciplinary action against one of South Africa’s notorious youth leaders, another Notorious B-I-G falls…Lolly Jackson.
For many months now Julius Malema has dominated the front pages of tabloids, Sunday papers and social media…but not today. Today, the murder of the famous strip club owner – Lolly Jackson – dominated the news in the country.
It is with a bit of sadness that I look upon his death, as this controversial, and what seems to be larger-than-life South African was gunned down in Johannesburg at his friend’s place. What is funny is that like Malema, Jackson was someone that often gave controversial statements to the media. Who could forget his larger than life billboard with a picture of a female exotic dancer – with the tagline “Teazers: No need for gender testing” after the disgusting gender testing done on Caster Semenye, a South African sports hero. Or his comments on the World Cup – that South Africa had to sort out transport and crime if the world cup was going to be any success.
These public commentators seems to dull the reader, but still providing some humour to the situation we find ourselves in as South Africans; high unemployment rates, inequality, lack of basic services etc.
Lolly Jackson sold sex and Malema made the youth league “sexy” again. Either way, today we mourn the demise of both these South Africans; one was murdered. And the other’s voice seems to have been killed as Malema’s camp remains silent …at least for today.
