Today’s the day to remind us how we got here: #elections2024 - eligible voters: 42.3m / registered voters: 27.7m / actual voters: 16.2m / 58.5% was the turnout. Nothing to be proud of!

#GNU so far so good. Watching Gayton McKenzie with interest; listening to Juju with suspicion; celebrating Carl Niehaus’s EFF red Puss in Boots outfit! And welcome back Matamela C Ramaphosa. There’s nothing like a second chance.

Let’s put politics aside and wish every father a happy day. Happy fathers make good politicians! And as for the youth? Every day is #YouthDay

In case you forgot yesterday, today is another Youth Day. (A tip to them: mother tongue is precious but won’t get you an international job. So start tomorrow: learn Chinese!)

Happy birthday Thabo Mbeki who single-handedly decided to deliver 50%+1 of the ANC on #elections2024? Thanks to you we now are a #GNU!

Sitting in the lovely Tswane sunshine waiting for Cyril and wondering if former President Jacob Zuma will arrive late, upstaging the inauguration? #GNU

Oh my goodness, all of us dying to go to the toilet but had to wait for the little aeroplanes to show they can do it in a straight line. Dankie President my skat, glad this only happens every five years!

Now the political Scrabble: Cabinet or Closet? Open or Closed? Sacred or Secret? Collision or Collusion? Or just a coalition? Knock knock! Who’s there? #GNU GNU who?

Oh my goodness, only one week into #GNU and already DA Mary Poppins has unfurled her umbrella indoors!

My grandchildren shocked me! They said: “Gogo? If the liberal #DA and the social democratic #ANC will be in the #GNU bed together, who will wear the condom?”

So Bantu Holomisa and his #UDM are part of the #GNU When I waved and said Amandla Bantu, some ANC comrades called me a racist! Nonsense! Bantu is his name!

#GNU The social media is constipated with fake news. Thank heavens for the kitties and doggies on the old Twitter tune-in! We are all watching this space for the real news. African time?

Oops! DA cadre deployment might be following in old ANC footprints. Old bad habits die hard! #GNU

#GNU now we have a disgraced former president who may not enter parliament because of a prison sentence for contempt of court and a disgraced impeached former High Court judge who was sworn in as leader of the MK Party opposition. Can someone explain why and how?

We’ve been a week without a government and we’re fine! And the lights are still on! Is that telling us something? #GNU

Slight diversion from our #GMU stagnation: Donald Trump and Joe Biden, the Orange and the Old, prove that there has to be a third US POTUS choice. I say Oprah Winfrey any day. If not there, let her come and sort us out here!

#GNU I’ve said it before so let me say it again: democratically-elected governments are using democratically- accepted ways to destroy democracy. Ref: #DonaldTrump #JacobZuma etc etc

Well they say by tonight we should be firmly on square one. Calm before the storm. Feed the #GNU - it’s looking thin and mangy.

Welcome #GNU with countless legs and many horns! Gayton McKenzie as Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture?? That probably means death penalty for soccer losers; God back into Arts - and Culture for Coloureds Only!

#GNU Do I have a feeling that we have a goal ball-kicker, an artistic joker and a cultured ex-con somehow tucked away in our overcrowded government of unnatural unity? @GaytonMcKenzie