The Citizen (Gauteng)

Terrible nightmare about Joburg

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Ryan, with regards to the Joburg mess, I had a terrible dream last night.

Met a man bawling his eyes out. “What’s wrong,” I asked, “wife run away with the dentist?” “Worse!” he said. “Kids stolen your savings and skipped to the Bahamas?” “Mother-in-law moved back?” “A hundred times worse,” he whimpered.

“Goodness man,” I retorted, “what can be worse than this lot?”

He fell to his knees, raised his arms to the heavens and with an anguished cry blurted out: “Elections, elections, the ANC have just taken back Johannesbu­rg!” Des du Triou

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