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Tuesday, December 08, 2009OH WATER, WHERE ART THOU? Don'tcha just love it when the washing machine is half-way through its cycle & all of a sudden you see a flashing light? Mine did that yesterday - I had a pretty orange light flashing at me, kinda beckoning me to mosey on over to see why it was winking so cheekily.Over I moseyed & checked everything out - I switched the machine on & off & got the same flashing light again. Thoughts along the lines of "this is fuckin' blinding, first the ping & now the poxy washing machine has gone on the blink" whizzed across my sludge. Sod it, I'll make a cuppee tea, cos that always helps with problem solving. Go to fill the kettle. No water comes out of the tap. BOLLOCKS!!! (But at least I realised the washing machine hadn't gone on the blink, yay!) The water was off for over 5hrs. No notification or warnings of 'Kindly fill a bucket/20ltr water bottle/bathtub as your water supply will be disconnected' by the municipality. Gawd forbid, that'd fall under the 'We Care For Our Consumers' department & we all know our local municipalities currently have several vacancies for such a position. The water supply eventually spluttered back to life some 5hrs later. My washing machine finished its cycle & all in The Why household were happy. Mikey got up during the night, to get a drink of water. The taps were dry. Again. When I got up at the sparrows fart this morning (5.40am eeeeek!) there was water once more. As I write/type now, sed water has been missing in action, once again for several hours. I phoned the municipality to enquire what the problem was. I was given a cell phone number of the 'emergency' engineer. I rang the number & my conversation went something like this: Me (upon the call being answered): Hello? Emeregency Engineer: Ey......hello? Me: Helllllo? EE: Ey.....hello? (Thinks fukkit to herself & goes for the kill) Me: I'm staying just off **** street - can you tell me please why there is no water? EE: Eh.........eh..........(mumble mumble in one of the other 9 official languages)(I say 9, not 10, because he didn't mumble in Afrikaans)(for the unenlightened, we have 11 official languages in the Rainbow Nation) Me: Can you speak English? EE: eee.....yes. Me: Oh good. Can you tell me please why we have no water in ****** complex? EE: *yawn* I was there last night - there is a cracked pipe - but now I'm sleeping......*yawn*.........mumble mumble............sewer pipe...........mumble mumble. Me: Thank you & I'm sorry I woke you up. Click. Eishkom will soon be starting the rolling blackouts, because they're broke, because they sell South Africa's electricity to neighbouring countries at a loss. Municipalities are falling apart at the seams, mainly because employees got their jobs on the basis of being the 2nd cousin of their fathers half brother who swept the floor in the museum at Robben Island & now goes by the name Comrade Wotever. I'm trying very hard to remain positive about my country, but bugger, it's an uphill slog. If things carry on this way into the middle of next year, this Rainbow Nashun will be the laughing stock of the world. Labels: Eishkom, Lephalale Municipality, not a drop of water to be had.  
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