LS 5 Wednesday

Power came on just after seven last night. I was too exhausted to do anything, I just sat and waited for the power to come on. When it did, I showered, cooked myself another rice, tomato, egg and cheese meal, ate ... and went to bed. Quite early.

While waiting, I amused myself by watching some news ... 

Mpho Phalatse - twice ousted mayor of Ekurhuleni, now wants to run for DA Leadership. When she first became mayor, I thought it would be a good thing ... BUT ... two problems: 1) she's promoting herself as black and as female, rather than on merit. 2) She attempted to force Ekurhuleni to push ripple relay installation in every home!

Ripple Relay, I hate that shite with a passion! It gives the municipality control over your geyser! And she wants to control pool pumps, and other items as well. She doesn't just want to control your geyser, but take complete control over your entire electricity supply - so you find yourself wanting a cup of coffee, but the amount of electricity supplied to your home isn't enough to use the kettle ... so you start going around turning off lights, PC, radio, everything ... every time you want to boil water, cook dinner, or even keep your freezer running!

Remember Port Elizabeth? How I had no choice but to keep the geyser on the entire day, if I wanted to bath or shower in the evening? Because the municipality turned off my geyser every single day from 18:00 - 20:00, regardless of anything. So what if there's load shedding from 20:00 - 22:00 ... you STILL don't get hot water!

East London ALSO had ripple relays forcibly installed - only, my landlord there bypassed it.

Anyone who pushes any agenda seizing control over individuals private lives ... yeah, NOT GOOD!

Electricity Crisis. The ANC now want to push for another 'State of Disaster' to fast-track resolving the energy crisis we're in. Sounds good? Yeah, not so much. Why?

Hello! Remember the Lock Down? THAT was 'State of Disaster'! Remember all those ridiculous regulations? Like 'you're not allowed to wear flip-flops in public'? I'm not kidding! It WAS THE LAW during part of the lock down! One single person was given absolute authority to do whatever she liked with absolutely no accountability!

Giving up that absolute power is not in the best interest of the ANC, so they ensured that 'giving it up' would only be temporary. And there's the proof that this entire energy crisis was engineered! And bringing it to the current disaster was merely fast-tracked.

Every attempt to avoid this crisis was blocked by the ANC. Going back to 1998! You can read ANY article, report, etc. you like - regardless of source; because they all agree on enough points.

This country is in beeeeg doooda! Deep shite!

So, why stay? Well, look around! Every single country has it's own shite! Different shite, but still shite. From the fire into the frying pan ... and at least the local shite is familiar shite; and I'm able to cope with it.

What worries me the most, though, is that the ANC is doing their best to incite civil war!

Yeah ... depressing, isn't it? Let's change the subject.

This morning I woke up VERY early! Around half four! Power was still on - so I knew it was the 2-hour slot between load sheddings. I got up, sat down with some coffee to think ... 

I just had to go out to feed the ferals in time - which I did. It rained most of the night, and still rained when I went out. My timing was spot-on, though - I'd fed the ferals (shame, I chased the black and white kitten out the blankie box, where it had been curled up warm. And the babies must have hidden far at the back, because the rain got quite far into the Wendy), had a smoke, and saw the car from afar ... stalked through the mud ... perfect timing!

Traffic was bad, though. Especially at the crossing from Soutpan into Rosslyn Road! We stood there for at least four turns - until somebody kindly let us cross! Four turns meaning, the traffic light was green for us four times, but the road was completely blocked so we couldn't move.

I just watched today's broadcast of 'Morning Shot'. Also discussing the impending State of Disaster ... a lot of exactly what I wrote above. Only they used the term 'French Revolution' instead of civil war and closed with a true Parthian Shot: "The Guillotine doesn't use electricity!" That made me laugh!

They also mentioned Gwede Mantashe as the next Dictator ... and THAT is freaky scary!

Ah! Fruit Juice delivery is on its way. Should be here in an hour ... it's now half two.

Okay, I just looked up South African Political Parties ... turns out we have a Dagga Party! Dagga being the local term for cannabis.

Fruit juice is here! Nice!