DEAR Editor;
At last I know who I am going to vote for!
It’s the party that can sort out the chaotic situation at what was, until quite recently, the most user-friendly Home Affairs offices in the province.
I leapt out of bed at 04:00 the other day to join the line outside Home Affairs.
I found a convenient parking and was approached by a young ragamuffin as I got out of the car.
He wanted to sell me a place at the front of the queue.
“On the steps. Near the door. Very comfortable place to sit, Lanie! Only R100.”
I said that the end of the line was fine for me, only half way down the block, and settled in with my fold-up chair and flask of coffee to watch the light growing from the east.
There was a similarly ragged-attired young guy collapsed against the wall in front of me and a few more of his ilk in the line ahead.
It turns out that these guys sleep on the pavement and then sell their places in the morning.
This would be bad enough if it weren’t for the fact that these places are ‘sold’ to more than one person.
By the time it was light enough for my wife to come and relieve me, that one entrepreneurial young man had sold his place to four people (He only charged them R50 each).
And the other young guys ahead of him had similarly approached every arriving car and sold them a place in the line, “Very close to the front. Comfortable seat on the step. Only R100” (or was it fifty?).
The doors open at 08:00.
My wife walked through them at 10:00.
She got out at 11:30. Without having gotten what she had come for, but that can be the next project for my favoured political problem-solver.
Right now I have to find out which party he or she belongs to and put my X on the chosen spot.
Decisively yours,
ZAC GRAHAM
Sunwich Port
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