O man, O wow, how were those elections hey? Democracy at work right there. No single party got the majority in Gauteng which is home to our nation’s commercial and political capitals. Like an earthquake in the middle of the Indian Ocean no one really knows that it is happened until coastal residents in Singapore stare wide eyed at a three story wall of water already traveling at 100km an hour.
I am really sorry for my perceived negativity but nothing happens, good or bad without some sort of a struggle. The fact that coalitions are being formed to get anything done is both exciting and very scary.
The humble residency of eMalahleni will hopefully not be running for their lives when the results of what is decided in Pretoria eventually spills over to the rest of the country.
In the meantime I still get phone calls about disgruntled residents complaining about their ward councillors, two weeks after the elections. “Did you vote for them”, I asked boldly out of sheer curiosity. “Yes, but they promised…” they reply, at which point I struggle to follow them further as Brian struggles to process incompatible information like trying to read an Excel document on a Sega Saturn. I just don’t understand you know. I thought that people who don’t vote and complain had no right to complain but now I realised that there are many shades of nonsense (things that make no sense). You would think that I would be an expert in nonsense but I was playing in the little leagues compared to the radioactive hurricane that is South African politics.
Good thing I don’t have to worry about the CIA bugging my cell phone for saying this but it would be nice if we can get a bit totalitarian, just a little bit. For no other reason than simplifying everyone lives. Imagine turning on the radio and hearing, “and now for your morning news bulletin followed by classic 80s all day, right here on propaganda 1, (news jingle) nothing to report. A happy citizen is a useful citizen…”
Am I saying that a dictatorship is better than a democracy?
No not at all but at least then I can spend more time about complaining about crime and global warming, instead of politics? You know stuff that I actually have no control over. It also means I get to take fewer phone calls from people complaining about the powers-at-be that they voted in. On the other hand I guess none of us really know what we are going to get until the tally is counted. We just throw our ballad sheets into the abyss and see what comes out.
Maybe the only real solution is to go live on a raft in the middle of the ocean since it is international waters. Arrrr there any friendly people out there?
