ConCourt Judgment on elections brings back hope

Forget about social distancing for a magic moment and give the Constitution Court judges a big old-fashioned bear
hug.

They deserve our grateful thanks for giving this year’s municipal elections the nod.

We now have the hope that’s been elusive for over a decade of ruinous reign.

Suddenly, I feel the rust peeling off painful joints, leaving me with a distinct spring in my step. In the shower I’m again singing Happy Days Are Here Again.

And my imagination is running riot – even transforming Zuma nightmares into fairy tale dreams. Like the ANC being so cash-strapped that it auctions Luthuli House.

And who best to bid than John Steenhuisen, who will need offices in Gauteng when his candidates take over Joburg municipality?

However, the building needs a complete makeover. Tattered carpets over which many crooked cadres have trod, walls repainted in blue, used desks and chairs in offices where rigged tender procurement documents were signed as braai wood at the reopening.

The office of the secretaries-general can be kept as a museum – a reminder of tainted execs responsible for the ultimate fall of Luthuli House (read ANC).

Their photos, prominently displayed, complete a history of misconduct and incompetence. Ask the present striking staff for their take on it.

Just think of the unthinkable.

• Timeous service deliveries;
• Budgets adhered to without fiddling;
• Neglected pumps and pipes replaced;
• The inner city again a sought-after place in which to live and shop;
• Informal pavement shops providing an array of handmade goods for tourists;
• And food stalls for chilli-bites, spring rolls, koeksisters and vetkoek.

And mielies cooked in a paraffin tin filled with boiling water over coals. There’s nothing like it when you’ve been shopping and are feeling peckish.

There you have it. Or can have it, if you’re on the voters’ roll and prepared to join the queues casting your vote.

A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to exterminate the local rats and, in 2024, the ruling ones.

Let’s play-play we’re Robert Browning’s Pied Piper.

Keep in mind the ruins that are now Zimbabwe with still no functional constitution benefitting the citizenry.