Article: Mr Zuma, I just love you in leopard skin, but those takkies are just too tacky.(News)

I vowed not to rabbit on about what's happening on Wednesday, and I won't. Instead, noted as I am almost as much for my blonde tresses as my piquant take on politics, I'll stick to fashion.

What set me off was a recent sighting of our Inevitable Maximum Leader, known to some as Comrade Zoom-Zoom. A malign Pom pundit, Sir Simon "Pukka" Jenkins, recently claimed Zoom-Zoom was perceived by many as "a polygamous, leopard-skin-draped, Zulu boss". Last month in The Guardian, Jenkins let his colonialist prejudices show, and rather carelessly at that... so much so that Max Leader-to-be has said he'll sue that old left-leaning rag.

(Actually, I think the casus ...

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