Endumeni Municipal circus starts countrywide tour

Its time to play the music, it’s time to light the lights.

It’s time to meet the councillors, on the Endumeni Show tonight.

It’s time to put on music, it’s time to dress up right.

It’s time to raise the curtain, on the Endumeni Show tonight.

In an attempt to afford the R2,5-million price tag put on the Mandela statue, the Endumeni Municipality has decided to market itself.

One of the ways is by hosting the Endumeni Show, a spin-off of the popular Muppet Show.

The Muppet Show featured celebrity guests and a lot of puppets.

The municipality already has an abundance of puppets.

Another proposal doing the rounds to raise the money is too have a Survivor-type reality show.

Teams will be split according to their political parties (and we all know that won’t last too long, soon there will be mergers and splits).

Councillors will have to survive a series of Council meetings, in which people are laughed at and Councillors speak out of turn.

Councillors who can’t handle the pressure will leave the table and sit in the gallery, a sign that they have been removed from the game.

The show will be called ‘Survivor Endumeni: OutLie, OutCheat, OutSteal’.

A resolutions is also to be tabled at the next Council meeting asking that the municipality officially be declared a circus and tour the country.

With Mr Mahaye as the trusty ringmaster, this one-of-a-kind circus is sure to attract audiences countrywide.

Tenders will also be available to companies who can supply a big-top tent for the circus, a studio for the show to be broadcast from, and political bandanas for Survivor.

With a great marketing team behind them, the municipality is confident they can raise the money needed for the statue.

No one seems to care that the statue isn’t worth that much or that it doesn’t look like Mandela.

Despite some saying that it looks as if a blind man sculpted it, the municipality feels this will be a much better use for the funds than spending it on T-shirts or KFC.

Whether or not Endumeni raises the funds in time remains to be seen and the Madiba statue could be moving on to greener pastures.

However, despite the possible loss of the artwork, Endumeni Municipality could be entertaining residents for many years to come.