What is the deal with the South African government? Am I becoming an alarmist by writing this post and expressing my opinion? I honestly don’t know but I just feel the need to write my thoughts down.
Last week the country, who had power, watched Derek Watts and the Carte Blanche team try to get to the bottom of the electricity supply issues currently being experienced by ESKOM. The viewers were polled asking whether they had confidence in ESKOM being able to sort out the problems; the answer was a 99% vote against them. That was over 100,000 people that each incurred a R1.50 charge to tell Carte Blanche how upset they are – I wonder how many people didn’t bother to vote or didn’t have power to watch the show?
So now I’m reading my feeds today and I notice the latest – radioactive vegetables have been discovered. Yes we’re taking about a report on vegetables being 150 times more radioactive than permissible levels. Oh great! What next? Am I eating radioactive fresh produce now? Maybe that Big Mac and Cheese should be my staple diet for the next few weeks until this crap gets sorted out.
Oh and then there is more to put the cherry on the top. Apparently 43% of dams in the country are in dire straits and are needing repairs to the tune of 180 billion Rand. Wow, how did that one slip by? Were the government officials so busy doing something else other than running the bloody country?!
Maybe there is at least a solution to the ESKOM issues – we’re all likely to be glowing in the dark in the near future.
[tags]South Africa,ESKOM,radioactive,food,water,electricity[/tags]
Totally agreed.
couldn’t have said it better myself.
scary story last night on Carte Blanche … Ecoli levels exceeding 7000 (that’s SEVEN THOUSAND) the accepted intl norm were found in the Duzi river shortly after the race this year. no wonder over 40% of the participants came down with illness shortly after the race!
40 million was allocated to fix a water treatment plant on the vaal somewhere, only to find 18months later nothing has been down and the money is now gone!
property on harties is going for a steal cause nobody dares put their foot in that water it is so polluted. in Dec ’07 a girl got splashed with water from the dam whilst her family was pinic’ing … she had to be hospitalised!
we can almost live without power … almost … but without clean water and sewage? not likely!
i’m finding it harder and harder to come up with reasons to stay in deep dark africa. call me the profit of doom if you like; i prefer to think of myelf as a realist. i’ve lost what little faith i had once in our pocket lining govt that cares only about making themselves rich whilst the poor they were meant to be “struggling” for continue to suffer.
welcome to Jhb my friend, the newest suburb of Zimbabwe!