The A.N.C. had denied that the marriage was taking place but on Tuesday issued a statement saying that there was "nothing sinister in Comrade Zuma wishing to enter matrimony in line with African customary and traditional practice," and that the matter ought to be regarded as private.
It could be argued that there is nothing sinister about Prince Turki's wish to overcome ancient taboos that his motives are both peaceful and laudable.
The kiddie humour, the sinister bent, the hint of wish-fulfilment, all come through straight away in the opening story, "Pigtails, Ltd", about Miss Rawlings who collects little girls.
But as the movie's tag line says, be careful what you wish for; their slightly sinister button eyes telegraph that this new life may not be so happy.
Even ticket sales, the last refuge for those wishing fulfilment of their sinister forecasts, did not turn out too badly, with 3,581,080 tickets bought, which, taking into consideration Greece's population, was a per capita record.
I wish there were something half as disturbing and sinister about "Crazy Love," which far too readily tends to play this pathetic story for laughs.
Interrogators hear what they wish to hear, and the most innocent act appears sinister when seen through a distorted lens.
But a report from Michigan suggests a teenager's miscarriage and her wish to pretend she was still pregnant took on a sinister life of its own with the help of the website.
Against her late husband's wishes, she let herself be influenced by López Rega, a sinister man who was known to the people of Argentina as "the witch" because of his belief in the occult.
He is not the usual penniless asylum seeker: Karpov has a letter of introduction to a sinister private banker, Thomas Brue Willem Dafoee) and, to the authorities' astonishment, this man now wishes to clean out a certain numbered account.
