Helen Zille’s disciplinary hearing was scheduled for this month sometime. Her tweets as to the good things that came out of our colonial era and the resultant reaction in the media kept us all on roll for a few days. Quite remarkable actually, no Spur incidents and such, to change the headlines for longer than a few hours at least.
I was still trying to understand whether Zille was referring to the Apartheid era, confusing it with the period prior to 31 May 1910 or after we became a Union before the same date in 1961 when the Republic was established. And what about the outcome of her hearing? Come on people, enlighten me!
Fortunately Jacob Zuma came to the rescue and stirred the pot, sorry Zille you are now old news. Goodbye Pravin hallo Gigaba I see you thanked the tax payers for the one trillion you personally are responsible for collecting.
Back to Zuma; social media asked everyone to wear black on Monday 3 April. Damn, I missed that call to arms but I’m wearing black today – a little faded and more grayish by now – but still. Then on Monday night a zillion messages on the community facebook page to march on Friday. Instructions on where to park (and can someone please bring a braai – barbeque for non-saffers), time, route and the works. And then the spanner in the works; we need to first get permission for the march. Okay then – we are asking permission for civil disobedience. Thank goodness for Wikipedia lawyers, there is a solution: groups of less than 15 do not constitute an illegal gathering, so all we have to do is break up into smaller groups. Yip, we are law-abiding citizens we are. Then there are those who cannot make the march, I believe they must have horrid managers who threatened them should they dare stay away from work. But not to worry, another solution popped up. At a pre-arranged time we all step outside our shops and offices and hold hands to form a human chain. Great balls of fire – all this solidarity and protest is guaranteed to ensure that Zuma and his cronies will realise they have overplayed their hands – they are sure to run for the hills.
I am happy to report that I too have ADD and before I could reply to the clever circumvention of possible prosecution through legal gatherings and marches in protest to our country being junked, an earth quake struck! Forget the march, forget the junk status. Did you feel it? Yes, we’re in Durban. My laptop shook in Centurion. I wonder if it is mine that collapsed. I didn’t feel anything, when was this? Impeach the Leach! What is a leach? How can leaches cause a mine to collapse? We don’t have leaches here in Centurion, thank goodness!
There is light at the end of the tunnel! It is now legal to smoke marijuana at home. Hurrah! As if we never smoked it before. Great news, I always wanted to take up smoking weed without the fear of prosecution. We live in such a fantastic liberal country.
I’m signing off; I really need a joint right now.
