Living in South-Africa is quite an interesting thing. We have one of the best comedy channels in the world, called Parliamentary TV. Yes, our politics is a joke! But today, I would like to speak about my hometown.
eMalahleni - City of Coal
I won't blame you if you cannot pronounce that name. I am still trying to get used to it as our town used to be called Witbank. eMalahleni is one of the most rapidly growing cities in South-Africa because of our location along a very important intersection of highways, but our Town is corrupt to the core and falling apart. Finding a road without a pothole is difficult and we often have water and electricity outages.
Take your pick.
There is a joke going around town. If we do have power, we won't have water. If we have water, we won't have power...
Sadly this is not a joke anymore.
Attempted theft at Driehoek Substation at 05h00 this morning:
Today we have electricity, but the water is off. There was almost a major catastrophe at hand as an attempted robbery at the sub-station would have left the town powerless for 48 hours...
Here are a few photos:
