WE HAVE established that Vytjie Mentor, who is spilling the beans on the Gupta family’s alleged involvement in appointing ministers and taking a poke at President Jacob Zuma while she’s about it, cannot be bought. Now we know she cannot be sold either, at least not by auction.
Tweeting defiantly in the wake of Deputy Finance Minister Mcebisi Jonas’s confirmation that he too was approached by the Guptas with an offer of a ministerial appointment, Mentor understandably had more important things on her mind than grammar. Her personal safety, for instance. If anything happened to her or her family, SA would know "who to suspect", she said pointedly.
"I was raised on the TRUTH, NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH!! I am standing where I am standing. I love SA too much. I am NOT raffled. The truth shall be victorious at the end. The truth always win!" she tweeted.
Blueberry hill of memories
NEW research may do for the blueberry what past "research" (or rumour, or bulldust) did for the peanut in the 1970s. Back then, somebody, somewhere, claimed there was proof that peanuts made you horny and an all-round better bedroom performer. Bang, peanut sales shot through the roof, while males everywhere — and a few females — put the claim to the test and the peanut-sex revolution took off, including in SA.
Now research has apparently found that blueberries can help combat the effects of some forms of dementia, such as Alzheimer’s disease. The wonder berry is, if the research can be believed, the new fighter against brain ageing, the food that can do for the head area what the peanut was said to do for the pelvic region in the 1970s.
The food-capsule business is sure to get a major boost out of the blueberry discovery, which may be the biggest challenge to ginkgo biloba since anyone can remember, and if they’re eating blueberries, that could go back a way.
A home for new words
IN THE spirit of Shakespeare, who is said to have invented hundreds of new words, the Insider proposes that the following be added to the English language:
Aquadextrous (ak wa deks’trus) adj. Possessing the ability to open and shut the bath tap with toes.
Carperpetuation (kar’pur pet u a shun) n. The act, when vacuuming, of running over a string or a piece of lint at least a dozen times, reaching over and picking it up, examining it, then putting it back down to give the vacuum one more chance.
Disconfect (dis kon fekt’) v. To sterilise the piece of confectionery you dropped on the floor by blowing on it, assuming this will somehow remove germs.
Elbonics (el bon’iks) n. The actions of two people manoeuvring for one armrest on a plane or in a movie theatre.
Frust (frust) n. The small line of debris that refuses to be swept onto the dust pan and keeps backing a person across the room until he finally decides to give up and sweep it under the rug.
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Vytjie Mentor. Picture: TREVOR SAMSON
WE HAVE established that Vytjie Mentor, who is spilling the beans on the Gupta family’s alleged involvement in appointing ministers and taking a poke at President Jacob Zuma while she’s about it, cannot be bought. Now we know she cannot be sold either, at least not by auction.
Tweeting defiantly in the wake of Deputy Finance Minister Mcebisi Jonas’s confirmation that he too was approached by the Guptas with an offer of a ministerial appointment, Mentor understandably had more important things on her mind than grammar. Her personal safety, for instance. If anything happened to her or her family, SA would know "who to suspect", she said pointedly.
"I was raised on the TRUTH, NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH!! I am standing where I am standing. I love SA too much. I am NOT raffled. The truth shall be victorious at the end. The truth always win!" she tweeted.
Blueberry hill of memories
NEW research may do for the blueberry what past "research" (or rumour, or bulldust) did for the peanut in the 1970s. Back then, somebody, somewhere, claimed there was proof that peanuts made you horny and an all-round better bedroom performer. Bang, peanut sales shot through the roof, while males everywhere — and a few females — put the claim to the test and the peanut-sex revolution took off, including in SA.
Now research has apparently found that blueberries can help combat the effects of some forms of dementia, such as Alzheimer’s disease. The wonder berry is, if the research can be believed, the new fighter against brain ageing, the food that can do for the head area what the peanut was said to do for the pelvic region in the 1970s.
The food-capsule business is sure to get a major boost out of the blueberry discovery, which may be the biggest challenge to ginkgo biloba since anyone can remember, and if they’re eating blueberries, that could go back a way.
A home for new words
IN THE spirit of Shakespeare, who is said to have invented hundreds of new words, the Insider proposes that the following be added to the English language:
Aquadextrous (ak wa deks’trus) adj. Possessing the ability to open and shut the bath tap with toes.
Carperpetuation (kar’pur pet u a shun) n. The act, when vacuuming, of running over a string or a piece of lint at least a dozen times, reaching over and picking it up, examining it, then putting it back down to give the vacuum one more chance.
Disconfect (dis kon fekt’) v. To sterilise the piece of confectionery you dropped on the floor by blowing on it, assuming this will somehow remove germs.
Elbonics (el bon’iks) n. The actions of two people manoeuvring for one armrest on a plane or in a movie theatre.
Frust (frust) n. The small line of debris that refuses to be swept onto the dust pan and keeps backing a person across the room until he finally decides to give up and sweep it under the rug.
• Do you have juicy gossip from the world of business or politics? Or just a quirky or funny story to tell? Send your scurrilous scuttlebutt to The Insider at [email protected] and it may just be published in Business Day and BDlive
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