Big Brother Africa: The battle lines are drawn! Max, Richard and Tatiana are up for eviction

COMRADES, the daggers are now drawn.

The knives have been sharpened and the bazookas have been aimed. WAR has been declared in the Big Brother house.It’s the liberalists versus the kamumblers.On one hand, the liberalists – Max, Lerato, Kwaku, Bertha and maybe Code (??) and on the other – Ofunneka, Maureen, Tatiana and Richard.The question mark (actually, there should be many question marks!) against Code’s name shows he has a leg in both camps.You can cut the tension in the house with a blunt knife after Monday night’s nominations.Those the dissers label ‘untouchables’ are no longer invincible.Their comfort zone has been penetrated.They’ve been touched and it hurts like hell.The touch has proved to be the final straw in the simmering house.The veneer of decorum has been stripped away and the ghetto in the liberalists is coming to the fore.The nominations by the housemates were Richard, Max and Lerato.This meant that Lerato, being head of house, was unable to save her babeee Maxwell as well as herself.This really upset her.She replaced herself with Tatiana.She was the first to show her Soweto ghetto-ness: “Now they will feel my fire.I will fight on Friday (to get leadership so as to avoid eviction).The game is now on.”She no longer wants two-faced people smiling at her or hugging her.This played out later: Maureen or Ofunneka wanted to hug Lerato after the nominations to show solidarity but the babeee was having none of that: “Don’t hug me”.This was just too much for poor Ofunneka, who ended up breaking a plate as she was dishing up food.After the meal, each camp went to mull over the nominations.The liberalists went outside to figure out how they had been outfoxed, while the kamumblers went to the girls’ bedroom (laugh, Meryl, LAUGH – let them hear it down in Jozi).Outside, the fingerpointing was started by Lerato.She made the observation that they were now outnumbered since Meryl’s departure and could do nothing about it.She kept telling Max; “I told you something was up but you wouldn’t believe me and now look what’s happened.”She was referring to a conversation she’d had with Max last week.She told him she had had a premonition that something was up in the house.Kwaku wasn’t so diplomatic, telling Max that if he’d saved Meryl they wouldn’t be in the situation they were in.A rueful Max could only say: “I realise that now”.Although they then all seemed to agree that Max had done ‘the right thing’ in switching Ofunneka.Think they were just trying to make him feel better.Too late, my brother: the die has been cast.As for the kamumblers, some of them figured they had got one back for Meryl.”She trusted the wrong people,” Ofunneka (who also nominated Meryl) told Maureen.Maureen was still smarting from Lerato’s rejection and said she needed her to apologise in order for them to mend fences but Ofunneka assured her the apology would not be forthcoming.The kamumblers mumbled and grumbled on about who has it in for them, and the liberalists mouthed off about who was targeting them.Everyone’s unsettled! In the midst of this outpouring of emotions, Bertha managed to sneak an opportunity to tell Kwaku she was really “sorry” about Meryl’s eviction.(Of course, she didn’t tell him that she’d nominated Meryl!) She said she hadn’t approached him on Sunday night because she understood what he was going through and wanted to give him his space.And she’d been so troubled that she hadn’t slept a wink that night.This woman, people, is out of this world.I don’t think God makes them like her anymore.This is your friend’s boyfriend or potential boyfriend and he is still crying over her loss but all you are thinking about is how you are going to hook up with him.How low can you go.To give Kwaku credit, he took it in his stride and assured her that she was a sensitive person who understood what he was going through because he hadn’t wanted to deal with people after Meryl’s eviction.We are watching Miss Bertha.ROMANCING THE STONE Richard presented Tatiana with a bouquet of flowers on Monday night.He apologised for all the bad times that he had put her through and declared his love for her.How a man can declare love to two women in the space of five months is beyond me.He hoped that they would not go backwards (in their relationship) but keep moving forward.How is this possible? The man is MARRIED.Is it just me or does the man not seem to understand what marriage entails …no sidekicks is one of the major pillars of a strong marriage.Tatiana was all cool, and just a little bit coy, and responded by telling him he was amazing.A kiss, prompted by Max, followed this major presentation.Imagine that! And there’ve been all sorts of fumbling under Richiana’s bed covers.Did we forget something …oooh yes …he is M.A.R.R.I.E.D.Now people, we need to vote wisely on this one.Who do we want out? Is it the cheating verbal-abusing husband Richard, now luvving it up with another woman, or know-it-all Maxwell? We need to vote based on who gives us the most entertainment and not based on hatred, We’ve already lost one major entertainer in Meryl and if we lose another one, BBA wont be worth watching.Voting, people, has to be strategic – once again, it’s a three-way race.The show is about entertainment so we need people who entertain us left in the house.It’s your choice.But: vote wisely …vote for entertainment, vote Richard out!WAR has been declared in the Big Brother house.It’s the liberalists versus the kamumblers.On one hand, the liberalists – Max, Lerato, Kwaku, Bertha and maybe Code (??) and on the other – Ofunneka, Maureen, Tatiana and Richard.The question mark (actually, there should be many question marks!) against Code’s name shows he has a leg in both camps.You can cut the tension in the house with a blunt knife after Monday night’s nominations.Those the dissers label ‘untouchables’ are no longer invincible.Their comfort zone has been penetrated.They’ve been touched and it hurts like hell.The touch has proved to be the final straw in the simmering house.The veneer of decorum has been stripped away and the ghetto in the liberalists is coming to the fore.The nominations by the housemates were Richard, Max and Lerato.This meant that Lerato, being head of house, was unable to save her babeee Maxwell as well as herself.This really upset her.She replaced herself with Tatiana.She was the first to show her Soweto ghetto-ness: “Now they will feel my fire.I will fight on Friday (to get leadership so as to avoid eviction).The game is now on.”She no longer wants two-faced people smiling at her or hugging her.This played out later: Maureen or Ofunneka wanted to hug Lerato after the nominations to show solidarity but the babeee was having none of that: “Don’t hug me”.This was just too much for poor Ofunneka, who ended up breaking a plate as she was dishing up food.After the meal, each camp went to mull over the nominations.The liberalists went outside to figure out how they had been outfoxed, while the kamumblers went to the girls’ bedroom (laugh, Meryl, LAUGH – let them hear it down in Jozi).Outside, the fingerpointing was started by Lerato.She made the observation that they were now outnumbered since Meryl’s departure and could do nothing about it.She kept telling Max; “I told you something was up but you wouldn’t believe me and now look what’s happened.”She was referring to a conversation she’d had with Max last week.She told him she had had a premonition that something was up in the house.Kwaku wasn’t so diplomatic, telling Max that if he’d saved Meryl they wouldn’t be in the situation they were in.A rueful Max could only say: “I realise that now”.Although they then all seemed to agree that Max had done ‘the right thing’ in switching Ofunneka.Think they were just trying to make him feel better.Too late, my brother: the die has been cast.As for the kamumblers, some of them figured they had got one back for Meryl.”She trusted the wrong people,” Ofunneka (who also nominated Meryl) told Maureen.Maureen was still smarting from Lerato’s rejection and said she needed her to apologise in order for them to mend fences but Ofunneka assured her the apology would not be forthcoming.The kamumblers mumbled and grumbled on about who has it in for them, and the liberalists mouthed off about who was targeting them.Everyone’s unsettled! In the midst of this outpouring of emotions, Bertha managed to sneak an opportunity to tell Kwaku she was really “sorry” about Meryl’s eviction.(Of course, she didn’t tell him that she’d nominated Meryl!) She said she hadn’t approached him on Sunday night because she understood what he was going through and wanted to give him his space.And she’d been so troubled that she hadn’t slept a wink that night.This woman, people, is out of this world.I don’t think God makes them like her anymore.This is your friend’s boyfriend or potential boyfriend and he is still crying over her loss but all you are thinking about is how you are going to hook up with him.How low can you go.To give Kwaku credit, he took it in his stride and assured her that she was a sensitive person who understood what he was going through because he hadn’t wanted to deal with people after Meryl’s eviction.We are watching Miss Bertha.ROMANCING THE STONE Richard presented Tatiana with a bouquet of flowers on Monday night.He apologised for all the bad times that he had put her through and declared his love for her.How a man can declare love to two women in the space of five months is beyond me.He hoped that they would not go backwards (in their relationship) but keep moving forward.How is this possible? The man is MARRIED.Is it just me or does the man not seem to understand what marriage entails …no sidekicks is one of the major pillars of a strong marriage. Tatiana was all cool, and just a little bit coy, and responded by telling him he was amazing.A kiss, prompted by Max, followed this major presentation.Imagine that! And there’ve been all sorts of fumbling under Richiana’s bed covers.Did we forget something …oooh yes …he is M.A.R.R.I.E.D.Now people, we need to vote wisely on this one.Who do we want out? Is it the cheating verbal-abusing husband Richard, now luvving it up with another woman, or know-it-all Maxwell? We need to vote based on who gives us the most entertainment and not based on hatred, We’ve already lost one major entertainer in Meryl and if we lose another one, BBA wont be worth watching.Voting, people, has to be strategic – once again, it’s a three-way race.The show is about entertainment so we need people who entertain us left in the house.It’s your choice.But: vote wisely …vote for entertainment, vote Richard out!