My son came home from school today terrified and in tears and absolutely refusing point blank to go to school tomorrow. My immediate thought was that he’d done something terribly wrong at school, and was scared to go back.
But NO! My blood pressure has now reached boiling point, and I need to blow off steam … so here goes … (close your ears if you don’t want to listen!) ….
COSATU (Congress of South African Trade Unions) are on strike – this means that the entire working force of “government employees” are meant to be on strike. This includes everyone from the High Court down to the street sweepers. Not everyone agrees with the strike, and most are just thankful that they have a job in this current economic climate.
So what do the minority do who are striking? They INTIMIDATE so that their numbers grow and it looks like there are masses striking. They intimidate the workers at the factories (who incidentally work for the PRIVATE sector), they threaten to kill their families if they do not join in the strike.
Now, (and this is what really has my blood boiling), they have resorted to intimidating primary school children, so that they don’t want to go to school and the teachers who are still willing to teach are left with empty classrooms!
My 8 year old son was told that if he dares come to school tomorrow, they will steal him and he will never see me again!!!!! When I asked him who had done this, he told me “there were so many of them, there were police there as well but I couldn’t see them!”
HOW DARE YOU BASTARDS THREATEN MY CHILD AND THE OTHER CHILDREN …. HOW THE HELL ARE THEY GOING TO GET YOUR PATHETIC DEMANDS MET BY THE GOVERNMENT YOU ELECTED 16 YEARS AGO?
The Government does NOT have the money to meet your pathetic constant demands, wake up and smell the roses you damn idiots – be thankful you are employed, and next time you draw your little pathetic cross next to the face of a criminal who is going to steal from this country, then you only have yourself to blame!
How do I justify bringing a child up in a country like this? It’s become a joke of a society, and the highlight of my day is if I can get to work and back without being threatened by some barbaric idiot of a minibus taxi driver who thinks the roads belong to him! This country is beyond chaotic, and only a miracle can get it out of the downward spiral now.
