Nov 26, 2011. Enfant terrible Julius Malema, then president of the ANC Youth League, speaks at a memorial lecture in Rocklands. Three months later, the ANC expels him from the party. Malema had both his hands in many a cookie jar, broke into Shoot the Boer once too often, dissed Zuma and the party top elders till he ran out of credit with the dinosaurs. He is on trial facing corruption charges these days, but the Youth League still stands firmly behind its charismatic leader with the Breitling.

Exactly one year later, walking through Brussels late this afternoon. Speaking of shooting Afrikaner Boere, dairy farmers from as far as Poland and Denmark joined colleagues from Belgium, France, Germany and Holland today to spray the EU offices and the riot police with 15.000 litres of milk. Revendicating a fair price for their cows’ product, they caused a massive traffic jam in my beloved Brussels. In fact, they are unhappy because the EU keeps cutting down on the subsidies helping them to export their over-production. Never a dull moment in the capital of Europe where 28,3 % of the population lives below the poverty line. But that’s another story.

Walking home along the scenic route, down the steps of the Mont des Arts, I stumbled upon Time in Turkey, an open air exhibition I had completely forgotten about. Some braindead hate monger, of the racist persuasion no doubt,  had decided to share his views on women and/or islam with the world by vandalizing this beautiful portrait of a young Turkish textile worker by Claudine Doury (Agence VU).