No plot, it’s just weather
Hot air rising, natural and man-made
“Her level of integrity for our democracy has made her do this; this can be commended, that should be applauded.”
President Cyril Ramaphosa on the resignation as speaker of corruption-accused Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula
Once more nature’s fury is upon the Lucky Country though the Western Cape seems to be getting more than its fair share.
Wildfires threatening to burn the place down one day, a deluge (literally) the next.
People prone to symbolism, or messages from the “Universe”, might say someone was angry with the Cape, again, for some real or imagined infraction of whatever rules the Universe plays by.
More likely, it’s just the weather and it’s always been bad a lot of the time. It’s only that our collective memories are unhappily short.
Two cut-off low pressure systems in six months dumping an unseemly amount of “disruptive rain” on the province seems a little unjust, but then again it’s not as if the other provinces have been spared this time.
KwaZulu-Natal has been
hammered by floods and the clogged traffic in Joburg this week is a reminder that it’s not only Capetonians who lose all their mental agility when faced with having to control a vehicle when the roads are wet.
The other side of the coin is that the weather may be getting more extreme, but please don’t tell the climate change deniers or we’ll never get out of this column.
I think the cause is more prosaic. All the hot, bilious air rising like a stink into the heavens from so many violently self-regarding politicians, as we drag ourselves once again to the polls to (not) be reborn, has, in fact, heated the lower atmosphere, triggering a microclimate over the southern tip of Africa.
This has brought storms and wind and tempestuous rain anything to keep the people busy and away from megaphones and matches.
Because the Universe is tired and wants it to be known that we, the people, need to shut up.