When Floyd Shivambu travelled to Malawi to spend Good Friday with the charlatan Shepherd Bushiri at his place of business — a sort of farm where humans are milked for money that the press still inexplicably describes as a “church” — it was clearly a meeting of kindred souls. 

However, not everyone is happy about this mash-up of the sacred and the profane, or at least of the profane and the far more profane. As the MK party scrambled to distance itself from the event, justice & constitutional development minister Mmamoloko Kubayi denounced the meeting as a “blatant act of disrespect towards SA’s legal system”, and as the woman tasked with making Phala Phala go away forever she clearly knows a blatant act of disrespect towards the legal system when she sees one. ..