The tribute was organised by the One in Nine campaign, a group of feminist activists formed a decade earlier to provide solidarity as Kuzwayo testified against Zuma – a family friend and prominent member of the ruling African National Congress – inside the selfsame court.
I found it even less helpful in understanding why one of those selfsame Communists, Deng Xiaoping, decided to reverse course in 1978, steering his Marxist comrades away from Mao's doctrine of permanent revolution and toward a modern market economy, albeit one under firm Party control.
When they were nearing Britain, and in view of the camp, so fierce a storm suddenly arose that none of them could hold on its course; some were carried back to the selfsame port whence they had started, others were driven away, with great peril to themselves, to the lower, that is, to the more westerly, part of the island.
You can regard these pictures with the selfsame certainty.
The selfsame media, remember, failed to see Jeremy Corbyn coming.
But we often don't recognise ourselves as part of that selfsame heaving mass.
So every day is in fact the selfsame evening and morning.
Not so long ago he worked for and praised that selfsame president.
"The Sanspotato is of the selfsame stuff as the superfinest Lord Lieutenant.
It is for the selfsame reason that I brought Sammy Davis, Jr., Jr., with us.
And here we are – with, unbelievably, the selfsame vision now enforced by wraparound surveillance.
