David Bullard’s having a go at Business Day columnist Xolela Mangcu over at the Richmark Sentinel website.  Click here to read.

He takes isue with a recent Mangcu’s column for Business Day, in which Mangcu said cartoonsit Zapiro and Vrye Weekblad founder Max du Prees are racist. It’s vintage Bullard — amusing and cutting — and sure to get Xolela ranting so this could be a lot of fun. This is what Bullard has to say about his fellow columnist:

For Mangcu is an intellectual as he tirelessly reminds us every week. He neglects to mention that he received a generous donation of shares from Mr Tokyo Sexwale part of which he turned into a Porsche Cayenne. This allows him the leisure time to loaf around the Seattle Coffee shop in Hyde Park looking…..er intellectual.

And then he leaps to Zapiro and Du Preez’s defence with a couple of sideswipes as he goes, especially for Max, whom he refers to as:

…bitter and a tad boring but he certainly isn’t racist. He just has that unfortunate colonial habit of patronizing the darkies and talking down to them as though they were children.

"With you, the force may be."

I bet Du Preez is already sharpening his pen.I hear Bullard wrote a pice for the Sentinel over the weekend about the Sunday Times  (remember that gis juicly court case against the paper is set down for June 22 though the word is that the Crimes may settle on the steps of the court).  Bullard apparently took more than a few potshots at editor Mondli Makhanya but it was taken down as it was too defamatory.

I’m afraid I couldn’t locate Mangcu’s column on Business Day’s website, which has been a new look today. My only beef is that they’ve forgtiten to link to The Weekender, which, if you’re outside Joburg, Cape Town and Durban, you can’t lay your hands on in print form. However, the good news they’ve finally added RSS feeds which means I can remove them from my favourites folder labelled: “The plonkers without RSS feeds”.

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