Guard! Guards! .....eh? Car Guards?

The phenomenon known as the orange-vest wearing 'car-guard' that has become entrenched in our society is probably the single most annoying thing in the world! To put it into perspective, I despise them even more than backward thinking people that want to expose the Freemasons and the Illuminati for the threat they are to life on earth as we know it! WTF!!! I even despise them more than motormouth youth league leaders whose brains can't keep up with the constant flapping of their fat lips! Well, maybe not, but they really irritate the crap out of me!
Picture this: Parking on Church Square in Pretoria, as you get out your accosted by a 'car-guard' demanding you give them money for the privilige of parking on municipal property! And instead of just accepting the R5.00 you offer, they demand a certain set amount depending on the length of your stay! Surely the fact that there are parking meters should do away with the necessity of car guards being there in the first place! What else are we paying for?!

It's a pity that our society has allowed for this phenomenon to become the norm, instead of begging with a cardboard (which at times are quite humorous and brightens your day), the beggars are now donning neon orange vests and intimidating (extorting) the motorists who dare park in their territory into paying their arbitrary fees! Such is life in Azania!

Kempton is not too far away...

When I think about how often I travel, which is almost never, I almost always think that I still have to see so much of South Africa. My wife and I have travelled to the Cape on our honeymoon, been to the Wild Coast and into Transkei, seen all the marvels of the Kruger National Park, the waterfalls and potholes in Mpumalanga and explored some of the North Coast, it still only scratches the tip of the iceberg. We have not been to the Golden Gate, we haven't been in Namaqualand during Spring, we haven't gone diving in Sodwana to name but a few. Then why the obsession South Africans have with going abroad? I have thought about this quite often and have come to the conclusion that it is not the pursuit of natural beauty or the hustle of a cosmopolitan city (both of which can be found right here), it is the people. South Africans are fed up with other South Africans! It is one thing to come across people little towns that are almost exactly the same as those in your own little town or the one you just travelled through, but to hear them complaining about the same things is what is getting us down! Whether it is about the disenfranchisement of black people or whether its the anger displayed towards militant political youth leaders, everyone faces the same situation. So we would rather escape to these idyllic destinations not to enjoy the scenery, but to hear different complaints; whether it be tsunamis, earthquakes or politcal coups; it is nice to know that other people might have it worse than us! So if you stay in Gauteng and you have had enough of our complaints, treat yourself to a nice earful of terrorist alerts, tsunami warnings and Richter scale readings, the airport in Kempton is not too far away!