Dump Trump with Mervyn Gers' inspired toilet creations

The importance of the world's dictators, oligarchs and their ilk is circling the drain.

- By Herman Lategan

I've been lucky to have attended some of the most off-beat and avant-garde art exhibitions in the world, including several in Cape Town where live snakes formed part of an installation - and a burlesque exhibition featuring Veronique Malherbe, who once used her breast milk to produce chocolates called Breastlay.

Then there was the performance artist Peet Pienaar, famous for having himself videotaped while undergoing circumcision. All of this in iKapa.

You get the vibe I've been around the metaphorical block, I've seen it all, don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs.

A few weeks ago, however, was the first time I went to an exhibition of a large toilet and a chamber pot (called a "Koos" in Afrikaans). It's not merely like a normal suburban toilet in Parow called Armitage Shanks (remember those?) with ouma's hand-knitted red and green doilies on the cistern or a Koos made from stained enamel.

No, shoo, off you go, close the door on your way out, I'm on the loo these items have Donald Trump's face painted on the inside so that you can have a dump on Trump or spend a penny on an oligarch dictator.