Do these people sit in a room somewhere and say, “Look we’ve just hit them with 2 days of no power. They’re pretty rattled by that, so let’s push them over the edge by turning their water off, and will someone please call the phone company and tell them to cut DSL!�

I hear Graeme is doing some secretive behind-the-scenes work with the Joburg municipalities…I think this is round one of the TmTd practical joke…time for you to think of some payback, Nuf Sed..

And yet there are millions who keep body and soul together without those basics.

So either our municipalities are slowly (or rapidly) starting to come apart at the seams or the government decided that it was easier to deprive the ‘haves’ of the basic necessities than to supply the ‘have nots’ with said basics……

So maybe we start stocking up on generators, 50 gallon drums in our gardens to store rainwater and enough canned food to sink the titanic. Or we can just smile, grab a lukewarm coke and declare that we’re not sissies. Or humourless old farts…..

Harharhar – Koos, pass me another candle please.