Dead Cow

Sipho bought a cow from Bongani for R500 and asked him to deliver it the next day.The next day Bongani showed up at Sipho's doorstep . "

Sorry Sipho, but the cow died last night."

"OK", said Sipho, " Give me my money back". "Sorry, I have already spent it," said Bongani. "Eish!... Ok, bring me the dead cow".Said Sipho

The next morning, the carcass was delivered to Sipho.

A fortnight later, Bongani bumped into Sipho and asked him what he did with the dead cow. " Oh, I raffled it, and sold 251 tickets at R5 each and made a profit of R850.! I just didn't tell anybody that the cow was dead".

"But didn't people complain?" asked Bongani in amazement

"Only the guy who won, so I gave him his R5 back".

Sipho is now Minister of Finance.