Only the victory cake brings her ‘manape’!

25 August 2015 06:30 pm Views - 4155

We in this column had occasion to run a story about a ‘cake lady’ who secured Betel leaf party nomination on the recommendation of a religious dignitary to run in a Western province district.


The lady campaigned hard, but she fared poorly at the poll going down to the bottom of the ‘manape’ list.

“Though she lost, the cake she made to celebrate the victory won everyone’s ‘manape’,” a colleague of the lady had quipped during a tete-a-tete with a VVIP, they say