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The finest TV moment as State Capture is recaptured for Sass!

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June 13, 2025

Thank the scriptwriters, or the ANC - the most original storyline in the South Africa Sh*t Show is back home

- Malibongwe Tyilo

Dear writers of the South Africa Sh*t Show (Sass), Thank you so much for reading my monthly reviews of the show and taking my constructive feedback into consideration.

When I last wrote anything related to Sass, back in April, it was an open letter to my editor to submit my notice of resignation over her refusal to investigate the writers of the America Sh*t Show (Ass) over their intellectual property theft, specifically their plagiarism of Sass’s most original storyline, State Capture.

Upon receiving my notice of resignation, she immediately wished me well on my future endeavours, clearly demonstrating a lack of gratitude for my great contribution to culture as our country’s all-time greatest non-award-winning film critic.

I've since decided to retract the resignation, for your sake, of course. As I informed my editor in my resignation retraction email, I’ll let her off the hook this time, but she is to consider my now retracted resignation letter as the first written warning from me — one or five more strikes and that’s it, I will resign! But for now, I must humbly accept the tough reality that the local film industry needs me, as demonstrated by the changes you've made since my open letter of resignation was published.

It is clear to me that you realised the gravity of the intellectual property theft that Donald Trump's Ass engaged in by plagiarising the State Capture storyline. When I read that you'd brought back “Gupta-era minister Lynne Brown” to help the ANC with its Western Cape strategy, I knew you were pulling State Capture out of that Ass and bringing it back home where it belongs. With Brown’s return to the show, almost all the “Gupta ministers” are back in Parliament as ANC MPs. Bravo!

Her fellow Gupta ministers Faith Muthambi and Malusi Gigaba have long returned. We still await former mines minister Mosebenzi Zwane’s return, but hopefully it won’t be much longer now; Sass always delivers.

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