Good times, loadshedding is back!

Good things happen to those who wait, so says the older generation. The new one, of economic freedom fighters think otherwise – they argue that; “good things go to those who hustle!” members of the younger, or new generation go out to look for livelihoods, even if it means crossing roads with the authorities, or landing on the wrong side of the law, let alone hurting relatives. I don’t fall under either of the aforementioned generations!

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.

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