In a Nutshell: Idiosyncrasies

Fellow South Africans, do you collectively or individually take note of the absurdities that bedevil our existence in our country?

As we are all poignantly aware, our electricity service provider skips, hops and jumps down the road of promises and disappointments scattering shameless assertions that all is under control and things will only get better.

Shame on you all for leading the trusting and sometimes gullible public by the nose, and even worse, shame on us (the paying public) for allowing us to be so treated. Remember, fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

I understood that the wizard with the magic touch was hereby employed to make our quality of life acceptably better, and more first world in expectation of this better lifestyle. The other night, as on most nights, the electricity ogre presented the bad news about the system being under strain blah, blah – and to turn off your geyser, pool pump etc., etc.

Fair go, but at that time in South Africa there were two live football matches being played under floodlights! Me switching off said equipment will do squat, and unless a huge number of my fellow South Africans mimic my actions, suffice to say the power balance will not change for the better.

Strange too that the SONA night was free of the instruction to switch off some electrical items and no blackout across the country. Well, that is one scenario I wanted to discuss.

Have you noticed how in some, I cannot say all, public service departments the size of the working office space wherein we fellow South Africans are served, bears no relation to the number of customers that pass through the doors.

I was at an office recently, where it is guaranteed that there will be a set number of feet coming over threshold each day, yet the office working space can only happily accommodate (because of Covid restrictions) eight people, and in a normal Covid-free environment, maybe twelve persons.

Yet, another municipal office where customers will visit infrequently, we could seat thirty-odd persons. What an odd arrangement indeed. Another curiosity I find most strange, is the television presentation of the weather report, as with the financial report, why do the presenters read the details to you that are boldly visible on the screen?

Are we all taken to be fools, and need vocal confirmation of what is visually presented? Fellow South Africans, maybe I have spouted about nothing of importance, but maybe I have opened your eyes to some oddities which are around us each day, but because it is around us each day – we do not see them.

You cannot see the wood for the trees, and there will be precious few trees in years to come, because of the speed the natural vegetation is being cleared. Save the forest please, because they are beautiful, clean the air of carbon dioxide and provide a habitat for many animals.

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