So anyway this week, even though i have a pretty decent pad in Barbeque Downs, a mate of mine asked me to house sit his super styling pad in the MichaelAngelo Towers, reluctantly I agreed, but thats only cos he asked me so nicely and i didn’t want to seem an ungrateful sod by declining ;) So as i write this I am looking out of paradise in the sky at the beautiful lights of Joburg stunning.

But this my good friends is a view and a lifestyle that only very few people will ever experience. Anyway, i guess thats the way of the world, because those rich few i guess make it possible for the poor few to buy bread and milk, i mean who is going to scrub those showers and toilets, make dinner, build these lovely drapes, wall paper, the electrical and telephone cables that service these places, the front desk concierge, security and so we move on...its life i tell ya, how its been and how it will always be!

Speaking of security, I must admit, I am pretty concerned about this talk about the police being given the right to shoot first then ask. From where i sit, it looks like its giving the police the ability to take peoples lives into their hands. I am all for fighting crime. I say this fresh after having an incident at my house last week. CRIME is South Africas greatest enemy and it needs to go. Is shoot to kill the correct solution....eeeeh i think not!

And why do i think not. Lets start off with the fundamentals. I have had maaaaany a run in with the authorities, funnily enough only in Joburg. And I cant find a more polite or PC way to put this, but the majority of the police I have encountered are power hungry, bullying, bumbling idiots. I really did try find better words to describe them but this alas was the best i could do. A lot of them display the mentality of a playground bully wait better still a looser who became prefect and now he feels he has arrived, oh wait oh wait even better, a steroid filled bouncer at a night club who feels that because he bounced you from the club he has a humungous penile extension and a bank balance to match Richard Branson’s. I think you get my drift. Many of these people have a grade 12 certificate but if i am not mistaken this was recently implemented, I think prior to that, a grade 8 would do. Now lets look at the demographic of the police force shall we. Majority = black. We all know the state of affairs in an average school in South Africa.

Thats just one facet I have delved into, not in depth by any means, but education my dear friends is key in most things particularly in instances where you decide whether someone lives or dies.

But wait there is more. Now these self same people work in an insanely risky job. They put their lives on the line to save our properties and our lives. They are constantly attending the funerals of their colleagues because they were not protecting their own homes, no man, they were downstairs here in Sandton responding to a call from someone who has had his BMW X6 nicked.

Lets throw in another dynamic, these people are insanely under paid in my mind, because if they were adequately paid they wouldn’t always be looking for cooldrink ;)

Let me give you an example of something that recently happened to a mate of mine, I was in Cape Town so I called in a substitute to be harassed my the popo in my absences. Lets use an arb name, lets call my mate Tim. So Tim and some friends had gone for a few drinks on a Thursday night. It was the wee hours of Friday morning, knowing work was around the corner, Tim decided to head on home. Smart man. He stopped at the traffic lights. They turned green he proceeded. A little while on his way he hears, weee o weeee o we, weeee o weee o we, weee o weeee o we, like a cop car (Lil Wayne ;)) yup and it was a cop car. Step out the car...Mr Officer what might be the problem sir he asks, boss u just jumped a red light there they said. You must be joking Tim replies. No seriaaas. You have been drinking ne? Tim may have had one or two, possibly over the limit, but not hammered. Tim begs them to go and breathalyse him, at this stage i think its the right time to tell you all that Tim plays poker compulsively too as evidenced by his call on the Cops. He was convincing. They told him. No but my man, you were driving like a mad man and you nearly caused an accident. We are going to take you to Jail. Tim logically asks. So where is this car that i nearly crashed into, please give me an indication of the colour or the number plate because they must come and lay a charge against me. At this point the cops realised, ey this one he is not a stupid ne. So they just uprooted him and in the back of the van he was shoved. They then proceeded to drive, might i add unnecessarily, like raving mad lunatics around the block, ofourse trying to put the fear of God in ol Tim. They then stopped and tried to make like a snake charmer and extort some cash from him for a crime he didn’t commit. He refused and so to the station he went. In the slammer he was put with proper hard criminals, murderers and a rapist i think he said. Now thats no way to spend a Thursday morning. They let him out in the morning and charged him. So what can Tim do....errr nothing!! Absolutely nothing, a typical case of you damned if you do and you damned if you don’t. I mean say he had to go after these bras, your life will be hell man, Every cop will be out to get u. Especially not being a South African born South African/resident. They laid a charge against him and now he has a record of negligent reckless driving. ABSOLUTE B*** S*** if you had to ask me, but you didn’t so i take it back.

Now you give these self same people a loaded gun and a licence to use it at their discretion with no consequence. But then again how can you blame them when they earn such pitons yet their boss lives the lifestyle of the rich and famous, racking up hotel bills amounting to half a million South African, IN THE PROVINCE WHERE HE LIVES!!! Why couldn’t he have just stayed at home eh? Up until a few mths ago his house was perfect ne? I don’t understand really i don’t!!

Anyway so life in SA has been alright lately you know, a man has been trying his luck with his Caucasian sisters and you know there seems to be some positive feedback, ya know work in progress... and then comes that bra Terblanche again, eish man that bra is messing up a brothers flow i tell you!! Jusus!! You know I thought falling off the horse and spending some time in the slammer had made him mute. The ladies had forgotten that us brothers are the swart gevaar, so much so that hanging with brothers was like almost cool (so i hear ofcourse), the beats 50 cent, Jigga, Kanye, Lil Wayne, The Game, all hot right now, low hanging jeans, caps bling, funky hand shakes are the way forward. Life was becoming integrated. Then he rises from the dead and starts mouthing off about forming a breakaway Afrikaner nation. I thought we were over this now. Can’t we all just get along?

This bra is calling for a separate state because in his words “It's now about the right of a nation that wants to separate itself from a unity state filled with crime, death, murder, rape, lies and fraud." This being the same guy, who was imprisoned in 2001, for the attempted murder of a security guard and almost beating a petrol attendant to death. Errrr

Nah man, his time is done. As a nation i think we have moved on in the right direction. There are a few fundamentals that concern me most of which were highlighted in that Nedbank document last week. But on a whole we have moved forward. Economically we are stronger, as a nation we are becoming more tolerant, we had 2 of the best Currie Cup semi finals I had ever witnessed this past weekend. Dont be fooled there is much to be done still, but the signs of progress are there. I have just returned from a visit to other parts of the continent and as i look out the window right now i realise how far head we are in some respect (yet behind in the humanity side of things).

He has a point in some ways though, because crime is our biggest problem at the moment and in some ways i can see how a person can choose crime. I have to be honest, man as a nation, we South Africans just ooze violence and aggression. Take for instance the semi finals between Province and the Bulls, I am sure everyones most memorable moment was Schalks tackle on Fourie. And that my friends is part of the undercurrent of this crime filled reality we live. Yes there are those who feel disenfranchised blah blah and I am loathe to use the excuse of the past, but unfortunately the chickens have come home to roost. This aggression and crime is becoming a part of our realities its almost an institution. On Friday when i heard that we had an incident at our house, i was away at the time and all i wanted to know if my brother was unharmed he said he was and i was like ok cool. It was like it was normal. It’s almost like its normal to have an incident with crime, if you haven’t then its only a matter of time. Thats wrong man. Because what that says to me is that crime is becoming institutionalised. ITS NOT RIGHT DAMNIT AND NOR IS IT ACCEPTABLE!! But change starts with me man, the small things, gotta go man they have to G......O!

K bedtime tired as knock knock jokes 

Birthdays
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Have a blessed week all

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