Mangosuthu Buthelezi, president of the Inkatha Freedom Party, reminds me of the main character in a perspicacious Zulu myth.
uNkulunkulu (God) sent a chameleon (unwabu) to say that people should not die. The unwabu loitered on the way to eat ubukwebezane -- the fruit of the tree. Then uNkulunkulu sent a lizard to say that people would die. The lizard ran and reached the destination before the unwabu. When the unwabu later arrived, the people wouldn't believe him.
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