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How the race was lost

1. The post-mortem reports are pouring in fast and furiously and they are as many as they are varied. One says the losing side lost when the 'list' was 'purified' to accommodate true believers. Some say as many as 1,200 new names were added in the last few weeks leading up to the election.

New game

2. There's a new game in town. When you have been caught, go on the offensive to try and discredit the ones who caught you - accuse them of serving a political agenda.

Smart smartphone

3. The one from the city goes to the north coast. Stays in high-price resort. Sees high-price smartphone and pockets same. Returns home and starts using stolen phone. Unbeknown to him, said phone has a security app, which photographed him as soon as he activated the phone and sent his picture to the owner's laptop. Now said young man is sitting in jail, awaiting a trial date, while the well-to-do parents are busy, trying to make the ugly incident go away.

Stale voices

4. Some are saying some of the so-called political commentators calling some of the political players dinosaurs is clearly a case of the pot calling the kettle black. They say, what was wrong with the coverage was that it was clearly a case of the same talking heads rehashing their old talking points, and it's high time the voice and perspective of youth be given a chance to balance the input of the 'elders'.

Mission discredit

5. Some say not only were they trying to discredit the top contender, there was also a massive smear campaign under way to undermine all and sundry, but especially the 'promising one'. Story is that they even went after his family by spreading a rumour about marital infidelity with one of his losing colleagues.

Fury from hell

6. They say the old saying 'Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned' was made evident the other day, as while the merriment was under way, one of the former hopefuls for the 'Title of Mrs' was elsewhere trying her very best to bad-mouth the one who ditched her! Some say her vitriol was so bad, some of her friends quietly left her side, as they did not want to be identified with such venom.

Forgetting the bill

7. The speaky-spokey shoplifter is back at her old tricks. She was caught in the act again in a midtown plaza by in-house security and detained for a number of hours. Word is the husband braved the embarrassment and bailed her out by settling the bill, but only after claiming she suffers from Alzheimer's, so it's not that she is a thief - she just does not remember to pay the bill.