We haven't had any new regulations, yet, coming as a result of the State of Disaster ... but I see COGTA is already taking charge. News regarding the flooding are coming from them ... which bodes very, very ill!
COGTA is Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs. Please don't ask me what that means. Even Wikipedia doesn't know what it means. It's very hush-hush. All I know is, that in a State of Disaster, they have absolute power - and are not accountable to anyone. As we've seen, they overrule the president - he's put in the back seat during a State of Disaster. Just a front-puppet. Though anything he says, has no value, unless it is confirmed by NDZ (Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma), one of Jacob Zuma's ex wives.
There's a lot of activity to put a stop to this, as soon as possible. Several organisations have already applied for a court date, MPs are arguing in parliament ... it MUST be stopped! Because, unlike the COVID-19 SoD ... there IS no end in sight! Meaning that they can keep it going for as long as they like - after all, they CAUSED the crisis!
ANC, and Cyril specifically, are joking about how the DA must make up their minds, as they called for the State of Disaster months ago - but what the DA called for, was a SoD limited to Eskom, not the same absurd circus the National State of Disaster inevitably becomes!
Anyway. I woke up during the night, again, and overslept as a result. Again. My tenant asked me to give his wife a lift this morning, as she's leaving to go to her job in Limpopo. She knocked on my bedroom window around seven! I had said, I'd be leaving around twenty past six!
Well, I got up, made coffee, got ready, went out. Fed the ferals, and we left. We were hardly out the gate, when my battery light started flickering! Uh oh!
Light went on permanently, stayed on throughout. I lost my dials - all dropped to zero - then they came back. No power steering. Sigh ...
On a positive note, though: I'm FINALLY getting help with the ferals! I posted on one of the Facebook Groups, and someone contacted me! She's coming either Sunday afternoon or Monday morning, she'll assess, bring traps, and teach me how it works. She's also arranged with a vet - the one in Pyramid, where I bought the cat food during the hard lock down - getting a 'discount' for the steri's.
Sjoe! I nearly forgot to buy electricity! I'm down to about a day or two's worth of units left on my meter ...
I'm really in deep shite, financially!
Stats SA just published a list of price increases ... ranging from 25% to 50% within the past 12 months! On basic items, not luxury items! The biggest part of that increase happened in January - when business' gave up on Eskom, and included the cost of running generators.
Strangely enough, in the news it says that Stats SA announced inflation dips below 7% in January. So ... what to believe? Well, when I look at prices in stores and online ... clearly nothing dipped, everything went up! Also in the news: petrol will go up shortly ... which, in turn, leads to EVERYTHING going up. Again!
Well, yesterday all excited about seeds ... today, I'm tense about transport.
I suppose i won't be able to get groceries tomorrow. No biggie, since I no longer buy fresh milk. I could do with some more cheese, but I have enough to take me to next week.
Urgh! Load shedding tomorrow morning 06:00 - 08:30. Again! Well, at least not this morning, when I needed to brew a fresh pot of coffee.
Sigh ... ten to four ... I suppose I had better publish, just in case.
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