Spent the weekend with the family at a local Casino resort, situated on a local river, the Vaal. It's a very important water source out here.....
Dead fish floating everywhere!!!!!!!!!! Turns out a sewerage works upstream overflowed, and tons of raw sewerage ran into the river!!! And, true to form, no one is responsible. That's the way of the new dispensation.
In the days of the so called "Previous Regime" this crap didn't happen! And if something similar did, there was a contingency plan in place to resolve it. And someone got slapped for it!!!
As things stand right now, we have international water skiing teams due here at the end of this week for a competition, and no one seems to be interested in getting the river cleaned up, including removing a couple of tons of dead fish.
Shame! But, that's how it is....
Also read how proud the KZN province Traffic Chief was of the fact that they dished out a couple of thousand traffic violation (read - speeding) summonses over the past festive season. Much parading of their "successes"! However, on the very same page was an article of a passenger bus of which the driver lost control, and it rolled, killing a whole lot of passengers, and injuring countless others. Interesting thing was, it was overloaded, carrying 99 passengers as opposed to the 68 it is registered to carry, tyres were bald, and brakes non existent!! Where were the authorities when this death trap was rolling down the highway??
Well, on the bright side, I took R1000 (read - US$164) off the black jack table at the casino. Paid for the weekends accommodation!!!
Nuff Sed.......Later
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