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title: "Video of the Week: Deep Fried Man – ANC will make you Junk, Junk!"
description: "Ah, South Africa. The only way we can really deal with our kakistocracy (an actual word describing our situation, by the way) is to laugh at ourselves – and we are never short of material. By STAFF REPORTER."
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# Video of the Week: Deep Fried Man – ANC will make you Junk, Junk!

> Ah, South Africa. The only way we can really deal with our kakistocracy (an actual word describing our situation, by the way) is to laugh at ourselves – and we are never short of material. By STAFF REPORTER.

By Daily Maverick Staff Reporter · Published 17 May 2017, 03:52 SAST

## Content

With the South African economy going to hell in a handcart and seemingly no positive news anywhere, it might be a cold-sweat type of laugh in the foetal position, but whatever works, right?

[YouTube video: "YouTube video"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEBiIdIrPFk)

Luckily for all of us, there are some funny people in our country. And this video – a parody of Kris Kross’s classic *Jump* starring the Atul and Ajay Gupta – is proof of that, because everyone loves a catchy parody, right?

Warning: you’ll be singing this for the rest of the day. **DM**