The following are courtesy of Hogarth in the Sunday Times and sum up an eventful week with a mix of amusing irony:

”Because the Father and Son elected this government to run the country, this government will do so forever.” – Jacob Zuma addressing rural Eastern Cape ANC supporters four days before he was fired.

”They were suicide bombers!” – ANC Youth League spindoctor Zizi Kodwa upstages the League president’s own idiotic comments with a statement on what the state anti-corruption unit, the Scorpions, supposedly are.