Good times, loadshedding is back!
Thursday, October 16, 2014
To me, it doesn’t matter whether or not my cousin, thousands of miles away, has been missing in action. You know the Kim…Un guy? We are distant cousins! He was recently reported missing, until he emerged this week in good spirits.
You will be shocked to learn that throughout that period we were constantly on the phone discussing the future. He only stopped taking my calls in the past two weeks after we agreed to embark on another round of missile tests just before the Festive Season. We want to prove to the world that ours is a nuclear powerhouse. Perhaps we should start relations with this desert country, which can’t produce anything for itself.
The heartbreaking reports carried elsewhere on this publication of a woman killed in Metsimotlhabe and four family members perishing near Metsimaswaana Bridge are, devastatingly, not isolated incidents. They represent the sharp, painful tip of a weekend that has seen far too many collisions, injuries, and losses on the roads. This alarming spike in fatalities is a screaming siren we cannot ignore. It compels a direct and urgent plea to every...