Scriptwriters....watch and learn....

This is amazing. Anyone hoping to be a filmed (as opposed to published for writers ) as a scriptwriter by tinseltown could learn a thing or three or so by just following Jackie Selebi's trial in the Pretoria High Court. I tell you many a talented scriptwriter could never come up with the stuff spewing forth freely into the court record and thus the public domain

Mind boggling amounts of money being bandied about willy-nilly ( 25 million rands for an introduction ..... 200 thousand rands stuffed in an envelope.... ) gotta hope there are some typos in there just for peace of mind. But no way Jose...it be the sworn truth as uttered under oath by the evidently inimitable Mr Glen Agliotti.

Considering that Billy then bought his freedom for a cool 40 million rand I imagine when all the amounts that changed hands as this apparently motley crew of Jackie, Glen, Billy, Brett and company are added up; 150 million rand seems like an estimate by the kind of accountant that has not been seen or heard of since the roaring sixties or thereabouts.

It is telling that Jackie's only defence is simply that he is being framed by one Bulelani - is that so? How exactly one might wonder. Perhaps Bulelani was holding a gun to Jackie's head and frog marched him (JS) into an upmarket mens coutuerier in Sandton City where upon sufferance of death JS proceeded to pick a few choice branded items of fine apparel and then protestingly leave without paying? All this in the specific company of Glen The Man - not once, not twice but innumerably. Given that at the time Jackie had the whole resources of the SAPS at his beck and call - I would like to suggest that Bulelani is in secret possession of a hand-held and trigger detonatable weapon of mass destruction!!! Thus it logically follows that JS co-operated in order to save the general population of the entire Southern Hemisphere - those Aussies owe Jackie big time and should be more circumspect about the Caster issue. I digress.

The show will obviously go on and more shocking revelations will come to light. I may well be comatose by the time the last word on this is heard. Looking out my window I saw a cop car drive past with sirens wailing and I could not help but wonder if the driver was one of those people that get sms when a big sale starts so they can have first bite of the cherry. I did not dare think such sale was at the Pick and Pay clothing store...

I wait with bated breathe to hear how JS will explain the lifestyle he led on what he earned which was not exactly peanuts but hey stuffed brown envelopes have a way of leaving a trail...