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South Africa’s governing party has pronounced that eating sushi off the body of a model in a bikini is politically incorrect.

A statement on Monday from the African National Congress secretary general Gwede Mantashe is unequivocal: “This act is anti-ANC and antirevolutionary. This act is defamatory, insensitive and undermining of woman’s integrity.”

The fish-on-flesh question has raged in South African media in recent months following reports of the practice at parties of wealthy businessmen and socialites. Earlier on Monday, Johannesburg newspapers reported an ANC politician had attended such a party over the weekend.

The ANC is not into nightclubs or partying, but it is a revolutionary movement.”

Over the number of years in my youth that I was properly termed a “revolutionary” I guess I belonged to the wrong tendency of the whichever sect – or something like that. I spent a reasonable amount of time in nightclubs, particularly jazz clubs, and partying was a regular part of my life.

Consuming sushi from the bodies of nubile young women, I admit, never occurred to me. But, raspberries and whipped cream rocked!