A line in a song called “Hey I don’t know (why don’t you tell me)” by an Awesome South African Group “The
Kongo’s” there is a verse that goes
“Where have all the hero’s gone”? So when you were a kid who was or were your hero/s ?? You had a number
you could choose from and having never been a fan of sci-fi hero’s like Superman and the Hulk, to others hero's were the Hardy Boys, Powerangers
etc, the Lone Ranger with his horse Silver and sidekick Tonto were my
equivalent of Batman, Robin and the Batmobile this despite the fact that the
lone ranger was played on the TV show by two different actors between 1948 –
1957. If shown randomly as part of re-runs it looked like he was able to change
his body to confuse the baddies and the "injuns". His catchphrase was “A fiery horse with the speed of light, a cloud of
dust and a hearty HI Ho Silver” .
Well one thing for sure is that
there aint no hero’s in the government at the moment and after you have read
these couple of gems you will see why. Our esteemed Minister of Home Affairs,
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, ex-wife of our Honourable (we use this word very
loosely when it comes to JZ) president told reporters yesterday that faster
service delivery by government is fuelling service delivery protests."Sometimes success puts pressure on
government," Dlamini-Zuma
said.
Talk about spin doctor prize of the
year. She then went on to give statistics about all the good deeds the
government had done in the past 18 years and said that the service delivery
protests are a result of people seeing that other people are getting services
so quickly. They subsequently get jealous and start burning tyres, throwing
stones at motorists, burning down their counsellor’s houses, burning trains and
buses. Makes sense, doesn't it? The fact that there have been more than 70 000
service delivery protests since 2004 obviously doesn't mean that the ANC is NOT
delivering. No, it's because they're delivering SO FAST.Here is another gem, and this is not a joke ladies and gents this is the real thing: A former Queenstown (Eastern Cape) town Councillor asked one of the present Councillors what the current state of affairs was regarding our water supply considering that we have not had much rain lately and were running low. He was told it was the fault of the ‘previous apartheid regime ’........haven’t we all heard that BS somewhere before? When the previous Councillor asked how he worked that one out he replied.................”Drum roll please” " You built the dams too big , so they take a long time to fill. You should have built them smaller, they would fill quicker and we would have plenty of water and never run out."......... WTF can you believe that this pond scum could actually be a Councillor and was probably earning a fortune every month.
So a new pope was elected this week,
they went into Conclave and voted on who would lead the Catholic Church until
he died or retired, big sales going on at the Vatican this week with souvenirs
like “pope on a rope” and a new sprinkler system called “let us spray”. The
masses waiting to hear who the new pope will be did not go hungry with sales of
“Popecorn”. Conclave only sat for 2 days
as late on Wednesday white smoke poured out the Vatican chimney indicating to
the masses in the square that a new pope had been elected. Francis the first is
his name and he was so surprised at being elected that he had a dress all
picked out ( a lovely Gold number with matching hat and scarf not so sure about the shoes though) as well as a
speech and a mass that he gave to the faithful in the square below. Seems that
he is really old, only owning a radio and a typewriter, Hell “oops sorry” I
mean Heck the last pope who was ancient could tweet, so perhaps it will be back
to carrier pigeons to relay messages to the faithful all over the world? 
In SA at traffic lights and at the
side of the road you can buy most things, from superglue to garden patio
furniture and everything in between, for instance you can buy grass (not the
type your thinking) “however I think that you probably could to vegetables” and
last Sunday coming home from gym I passed the one veg seller that has a permanent
spot on 17th Avenue and the dude that runs it is sitting in a brand
new “out of the box” Range Rover.................I was like “WTF” dude this
must be a good business..............perhaps he is selling “grass”
Talking
about Hero’s the Paras (paratroopers, the guys that jump out of perfectly
normal planes with large handkerchiefs) in most armies are seen as the vanguard
and some of its toughest troops, just think of Arnhem (Bridge to far) these
guys are tough in any country and in any language. I read this in the paper
today, I thought I was cracking up. I can't believe that the idiots in the MOD
would phase out the parachute to save a few £s. After all the Parachute Regiment
as been in the spearhead of operations for over 70 years. Why pick on the best,
when they could get rid of a few hat regiments, or even better still, reduce
the size of the Houses of Parliament membership by half! Check out the link and
spread the word to everyone that will listen.
As
we all know, long range insertion by parachute should always be an option,
where the helicopter lacks the range and speed of the Hercules and C17. The
Para has proven in his short history that he was designed for capturing key
targets, and bring death and destruction to the enemy, until relief arrives. We
have now lost our ability to go by Sea, because our navy lacks it's combat air
patrols of the aircraft carrier. The 7th armoured Brigade are losing their
tanks, and now this. Only 80 Paras to be on standby for parachute insertion.
that's only one stretched C 130. What are they thinking of. Surely they should
keep at least one Para battalion in role at any one time.
Super Rugby saw the Cheetahs beet the Waratahs 27/26 in a very
close match, the Southern Kings lost 35/24 in a hard fought game, the Bulls
lost to the Crusaders 41/19 and the Sharks lost to the Brumbies 10/29 so all in
all not a great weekend for the SA Super 15 rugby teams. I won 10 tickets via
Algoa Radio for the Kings/Chiefs game that i passed on to workmates as had Lekker
seats in the season ticket holders area. The seats are on the halfway line, 4
seats up. The stadium was fairly full 31000 people and unlike last week the
crowd were better behaved. While the Kings lost I have to say that we have
really shown some guts. The Chiefs first try should not have been given as
there were two forward passes that the ref and the linesmen did not see, so
they went to the TMO and after watching the replay a couple of times decided
that no forward passes had in fact occurred. “I sent biscuits to the TMO’s dog”
Next week we play the Crusaders in New Zealand that’s going to be a huge test
for the Kings. Playing against a great team away from their support base will
not be easy for them, but i believe that they will do their best and do the Eastern
Cape proud.
In the 2nd one day game between Proteas and Pakistan on
Friday the Pakistani’s leveled the series in a rain delayed game that saw the
teams over’s reduced to 44 each the Pakistani’s
reached the target of 192 with 26 ball to spare and only 4 wickets down so it
was a fairly comprehensive win. The series is now level at 1/1. Today (Sunday
17/3/2013) they have started to play the 3rd game at Wanderers (Gauteng).
The SA team are in Pink as are many of the supporters, “something to do with
breast Cancer and while I love Boobs, have to say don’t think i would be able
to wear pink to play a sport” so far we are not doing that well, 20/1 after 7.1
overs the Paki’s are bowling real well
As I have mentioned over the last couple Of Blogs petrol in SA went up exponentially and now costs us
R12.72 at the coast, seems like more people are car pooling and i have noticed
a larger number of scooters as well as motorbikes on the roads, some people are
even walking..................”yes walking” seems that everyone is trying to
save on their transport costs, took this photo on Thursday at a local Engen
garage.
Gabby’s boyfriend, Stephen went for his drivers licence yesterday
(Saturday16/3/2013) and on his first attempt a mere 3 days after his 18th
birthday passed with flying colours.
Flying to Gauteng with Ryan tomorrow for a couple of days work.
Will be staying with my folks that side so will be nice to see all the family,
have not seen for a while so will be really Lekker to see them. And I will be
seeing my Hero, “yep it’s my mom” so my Hero has not gone she is still here
look forward to giving her a huge hug”.
Ok well that’s it for this week.
Ciao
SPAD
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