Where are the rules?

Madam – Does our country still have rules for everyone to follow?

Entitled as such because I truly question it every single day. My personal major incident was being pulled over, beaten up and arrested all for doing 71kph in a 60kph zone travelling in convoy BEHIND mini-bus taxis at the same speed.

After being pulled over, all I asked was why me and not the others. The traffic officials bluntly stated that it was because my personalised number plate seemingly indicated I was Indian.

When I said it was racism. I was beaten up by them, even though my right hand is disabled, and thrown in jail. Long issue – after five court case postponements that THEY HAD CHARGED ME FOR, I won.

There was a judge who saw the injustice. My counter charge against them though, was thrown out of court by another judge because the doctor from Newcastle who had treated me could not make it for the trial in Standerton, where the incident took place. So, the traffic officials were just let off.

That is my gripe with officials. Come on people, think. Is our country truly democratic? Xenophobia is even worse. Do we even have rules to follow?

My latest incident happened last week, here in my ‘loving’ hometown. On my motorcycle, just before going straight through a green robot, the car in front does an illegal right turn. The rules state that it is my right of way, but he turned.

My bike screeched and I managed to keep it from toppling over. Then the elderly man swore at me. I stopped in front of the intersection. By this stage he had taken out his ‘doogoo’ (knobkerrie) and was rushing towards me.

Lucky there were policemen at the very same intersection, who saw the entire thing and rushed towards him. They calmed him down to return to his vehicle, and just asked me to leave. I took a deep breath, realised that there was nothing that I could do anyway because even if I had to sue him or something, it would probably be won by him or thrown out of court.

I avoided the altercation, because even though I was legally correct, he would’ve had ‘crowd support’! I proceeded to a shopping centre where I became even angrier. In the street of the parking lot for cars, two ladies were just walking.

I hooted behind them. They rudely signalled that they did not care and swore at me. The entire parking lot was empty for them to walk, BUT they wanted to stroll where vehicles should be.

Let me not even mention illegal road crossings by pedestrians. Red robots for pedestrians to walk, mean nothing. Knocking a pedestrian on the freeway is your fault and you are charged even though it is ILLEGAL to walk on freeways.

Must we also bark because our country has truly ‘gone to the dogs’ – no rules? Woof woof!

Entitled