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Women want polyandry by the horns? Big deal, give it to them!

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Like Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu watches our parliamentary sessions for comic relief, I too, occasionally take time off my busy schedule to marvel at South African MPs pretending to conduct business.

That place is like Marikiti; so noisy, outlandish and wild that if Nelson Mandela woke up from the dead and strode in, he would walk back to his grave trembling with rage. Shaka Zulu would probably whip those noisemakers senseless. And what is it with the gumboots and the disorderly points of order? It’s a madhouse! One of these days, the beleaguered honourable speaker will undress, pee on the mess and walk out raving like a lunatic.

That...