Noise: The root of all evil
In a properly functioning democracy, there would be no need for the country's president to be alerted about the dangers that noise poses to the economy. But ours is not a properly functioning democracy. Two buses belonging to the same company are on the highway. The bus behind slams into the rear of the front bus, killing five people. Our country manufactures almost nothing, yet the spectacle of traffic lights having been knocked down, especially at month end is a NORMAL occurrence on our roads. Murderers walk the streets after a short stint in prison for brutally killing their lovers, because where "relationship" can be proved to have occurred between murderer and victim, the courts cannot impose the death penalty on the murderer. The quality of our primary education has sunk so low that the only child who fails the primary school leaving examination is one who didn't sit for the examination at all. Drought relief ( ipelegeng ) program "workers" spend ni...