IT won't be long now and we'll have amendments to the security laws declaring the person of Jacob Zuma a national key point. All photographs of the president, save those officially issued, will be banned.
Furthermore, the citizenry will be compelled to cast their eyes downwards in the presence of this installation of strategic purpose and his entourage. Anyone who dares to look him in the eye shall be guilty of an offence and punished something awful.
Here at the Mahogany Ridge we won't be surprised. We've always held there was no place for apartheid-era security legislation on our statute books and they should have been disposed of permanently rather than stuffed in a cupboard somewhere. Dusting them off and putting them back into use has been all too easy for the Zumacrats.
What has alarmed us, though, is that these ministers in the justice, crime prevention and security clusters appear to have, along with their detestable legislation, adopted the paranoid, persecuted mindset of the PW Botha era as well.
One cannot imagine the sort of fear that compelled the Minister of State Security, Siyabonga Cwele, to declare that the publication of photographs and footage of Zuma's Nkandla home was a "breach of the law", especially now that photographs of the compound are everywhere in the public domain.
Even if the R208 million spent on the upgrades there came from Zuma's own and not the taxpayer's pocket, public interest in the place would be justified - if only to gauge, from an architectural perspective, the monstrous philistinism and subversion of the simple vernacular common with rural settlements in KwaZulu-Natal.