LET’S face it, white men can’t toyi-toyi.
(Before anyone gets their knickers in a knot, this is just a play on the title of the 1992 movie ‘White men can’t jump’, a comedy about two streetball hustlers starring Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson.)
The local branch of the DA had a ‘street hustle’ (march) last Wednesday to draw attention to all the service problems the coast is experiencing
Pat, pat, pat.
The message was delivered in no uncertain terms. However, best of all, they managed to coax the ANC out to join the call to action.
The ANC will probably deny their arch rivals had anything to do with their press briefing which was ‘conveniently’ called just before the DA march, but that’s hard to swallow.
Then the DA will probably squeal that the ANC tried to steal their thunder. To be totally honest, they have a point.,
However, for suffering citizens, it can only be a good thing that everyone is now on the same page and calling for solutions.
For the record, the Herald’s front page headline last week – ‘DA, ANC allied in fight against Ugu’ – did not mean that the two are now in an ‘alliance’. We were lambasted by both the DA and ANC for daring to suggest such a thing.
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The headline, read with the story, was meant to portray that both the DA and ANC were ‘allied’ in their criticism of Ugu’s services, not in an ‘alliance’. God forbid!
Sorry for the confusion.
To get back to ‘white men can’t toyi-toyi’, apart from a smattering of other hues, the marchers were predominantly 100, 150, 300, 400 or even 500 white people.
Based on:
* Ugu ‘whinge’ line tallies;
* ‘The number of signatures on a petition beforehand’;
* ‘Water bottles handed out’;
* That ‘some people were too old to actually march in the midday sun’, but met up at the Ugu offices;
* Councillor George’s Henderson’s count from his raised ‘vantage point’ on the DA vehicle…
We concede the number was probably closer to 400.
Sorry if the Herald ‘downplayed’ the numbers.
But let’s face it. Taking to the streets is not the DA’s forte. Whatever the turnout, several posts were critical of people’s apathy. Excuses posted beforehand – ‘can’t get off work’, ‘just come out of hospital’, ‘sick’, ‘have another meeting’, ‘short notice’, ‘on holiday’ and ‘there in spirit’ – hardly competes with: “We will bring the whole town to a standstill!”
Alas, most DA supporters obviously prefer to toyi-toyi on keyboards.
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