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This snappy comeback from Buti Manamela will make your Friday
A Twitter user asked the deputy minister why he'd been spared in the recent reshuffle. He wasn't ready for the reply.
Deputy Minister Buti Manamela
A witty Twitter comeback from Deputy Minister of Higher Education and Training Buti Manamela to a Twitter hater has earned him a lot of fans.
A user called Lazarus Mothogwane thought he was giving the deputy minister a bit of stick by taunting him just after midnight on Friday morning. Seriously? Who tweets cabinet members at the witching hour?
There Mothogwane was, in the dead of night, with a pressing question on his mind. He wanted to know why President Cyril Ramaphosa had sparedΒ Manamela on Monday in his first cabinet reshuffle after taking office as the new Number One citizen.
However, Mothogwane’s grammar left a lot to be desired: “How did Cyril left u behind when he was reshuffling.”
How did Cyril left u behind when he was reshuffling
— kgomotshehla mothogwane (@kgomotshehla) March 1, 2018
Manamela (who had hopefully been asleep at the time Mothogwane’s assault on both him and the English language was perpetrated) responded a few hours later: “So that I help you with your past, present and future tenses.”
So that I help you with your past, present and future tenses. https://t.co/a557dl6OHp
— Buti Manamela (@ButiManamela) March 2, 2018
This distinct lack of chill has generated a lot of hilarious reaction, with even political analyst and author Richard Calland remarking that it was “seriously well played”:
https://twitter.com/asandamagaqa/status/969487676310261761
Bayihlubileπππππ pic.twitter.com/fanFewDovy
— Tsakani Ntsanwisi (@Tsakintsako) March 2, 2018
Well he doesn't complete ANC even he hates it pic.twitter.com/sdaB1ZbsDw
— Tsakani Ntsanwisi (@Tsakintsako) March 2, 2018
"how DID Cyril LEFT …"
Engrish is not out motherland DM please pic.twitter.com/Gi05VqhMse
— L.i.o.n_L.a.ge.r (@LagerMntumni) March 2, 2018
— Vince (@vinsolani) March 2, 2018
Engrish never lubbed us. pic.twitter.com/x9C6V2fdfs
— Mrs DΙͺΛmiΛnΙ(ΙΉ)π« (@Letsang) March 2, 2018
I felt that!! πππ pic.twitter.com/R13blyyy1S
— Revolutionary (@Common_man18) March 2, 2018
ππππππ pic.twitter.com/dTDSWMnPHm
— Kgotlelelo (@brokgotli) March 2, 2018
Rubbish. O mo laile ππππππππ pic.twitter.com/2TiSZTxGwX
— (M)(A)(H)(L)(A)(T)(S)(E) (@Hlatsegul) March 2, 2018
πππππππ pic.twitter.com/OauFkKG5J5
— Truth Team (@SKHESHE3) March 2, 2018
ππΎππΎππΎππΎ pic.twitter.com/nEu8shEbsf
— 2ways (@Thu2ka_) March 2, 2018
