Literally Yours

This is progress? Am I missing something?

Then the enquiries to Telkom, Eskom, medical aid companies etc. They have a voice which opens your conversation with: “Please be patient as we are experiencing high volumes of calls. An agent will help you as soon as possible.”

Ear glued to the phone, they bombard you with alternative e-mail and website addresses.

They also do a big sell on other available commodities. If there are so many alternatives, why are the telephone lines clogged?

Ah, I hear you say, because not everybody had e-mail or access to the website. Then, surely, they can increase the number of agents.

I was told by a pensioner-friend that he visited the Day Hospital for his monthly check-up. He was seen to, but then told to come back the next week for his medicine.

Hello, didn’t they know he was coming? It’s a monthly check-up. The man is 73 years old and has to queue from the early hours to get told that?

And here is the clanger. The Cape Argus reported that Jacob Zuma is ready to take down the whole ANC with him. I say to him: Sir, they went down the day they elected you.

In addition, I question whether the ANC is a legitimate government in anything except numbers. There are 40 million extra citizens who are now enfranchised. This drained existing resources. But that is not at issue.

What is at issue is the assumption that the ANC is the only possible form or government. What about the other voters? Don’t they count also?

I hate categories, but it appears that the ANC demands the vote of all blacks. Then who do whites, coloureds, Indians, Griekwas, Namas, Muslims, Buddhists, Jews, Rastafarians, gays and the rest of the black-marginalised citizenry look to for their needs? Wake up and smell the coffee, ANC. We don’t mind if you, as the government, provided governance – if fair, free and equal. But at the present rate, and on present showing, you are in for a big surprise.

Watch this space.