President Cyril Ramaphosa gave this year’s World Economic Forum summit in Davos a miss, though not for the first time. Hogarth seems to remember he didn’t go in 2019.

The water-guzzling, bucket-sweating Ekurhuleni metro police department chief Julius Mkhwanazi was back in the hot seat this week. This time he appeared before parliament’s ad hoc committee probing police corruption.

Typically of a politician, the Gauteng premier has sought to gaslight and scapegoat thousands of anxious parents after continued failures in the province’s online school admissions system left up to 3,000 grade 1 and grade 8 pupils without placement.

In all the years he has known him, Hogarth has never taken the Nkandla Crooner for a soccer fanatic. Yes, he did play for a team or two on Robben Island, but there wasn’t much else to do there for entertainment.

ANC chair Gwede Mantashe, who has mercifully announced his retirement from public life, saw fit this week to give the unemployed a lecture from his ivory tower, telling them to stop ”basking in the sun” while expecting the government to give them jobs.

The world’s longest-surviving black political party turned 114 years this week and, as usual, its leaders and followers celebrated in every way they could.

High-living tenderpreneur Aphiwe Mbangwa, who also goes by the name of “Sgwili” Radebe, saw in the new year with a massive headache, which was not only the result of booze.

As 2025 ended, ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula thought it necessary to show the world that he is in tune with the trends that have made certain former US presidents very popular.

There you have it dear readers. You have made your unambiguous choice. And she is one Imogen Mashazi. You overwhelmingly voted for her as the country’s greatest clown in 2025.

Pity Mike Sandlana - born on an imaginary day, he can only eat imaginary birthday cake