According to the so-called Happiness Index report, out of the two people you meet in the streets, 99 percent of them are angry with one thing or another. Indeed the people are very angry - angry with low salaries, expensive beer, fake pastors, traffic congestion, stubborn spouses, and expensive groceries and others. I’m one of them. We are angry with the cold front, the stabborn government, the corrupt officials, loadshedding, and even unfaithful bricklayers and auto mechanics. The list is endless!
Yeah, we are angry because debtors refuse to pay our dues and when we demand them they get mad at us. Just two weeks ago I demanded my P150 debt from a friend and he went ballistic. He didn’t pay me, but has vowed never to talk to me again. Prior to this ‘adventure’, I got a call from a vendor just before midnight, who wanted to check if she could pay me a visit the following morning. “Kene kere ke cheke gore a ga o ise o baakanye pasele ele ya maloba, ke tshwanetse go ya setokong”. What is strange is that the vendor pressurised me to buy her merchandise but her requests for me to pay were now punctured with threats.
