Wives across SA go on strike during festive season

With Christmas and the long weekend just a day away, there are reports that housewives across South Africa will be downing their aprons and utensils from Saturday until 3 January 2023.

The strike comes after the most important part of the household and domestic workers have embarked on holidays during the festive season.

Fathers, husbands, sons and daughters have been urged to take extra precautions during the strike as kitchens in many households would be closed until next year.

Wives go on strike

However, it is understood some daughters have also joined the home executives in their strike action.

This strike is likely to affect the eating habits of individuals as they spend an obscene amount of money on fast foods and takeaways to avoid any confrontation with the striking housewives.

Demands

The housewives have handed a memorandum of demands to the head of their homes requesting that husbands become more active in the kitchen other than nibbling on tasters while the food is being cooked.

The home executives have also demanded they be granted additional leave in propensity with the school academic year.

Some housewives who do not have a domestic worker have demanded an additional week of leave and an increase in the household budgets.

This to accommodate their children who are on holiday from school.

Cultural activities

The striking home executives have demanded that husbands embark on a pursuit of cultural activities for their children while they catch up on their knitting, binge on daytimes soapies and get the latest breaking news from the “over the fence” neighbourhood reporter.

The husbands, meanwhile, are aggrieved as they will not have time to catch up on sports, Lego building and taking their daily naps over the Christmas break.

They have since approached the Kangaroo court to mediate on the matter.

Cautions

In the meantime, husbands have been warned to tread with caution over the Christmas period as there is a propensity to be a tad hot-headedness by wives during this difficult period.

Restaurants and eateries meanwhile are also offering specials on food for husbands with free gifts for their mancaves.

Picking up socks

Furthermore, a frustrated wife declared she is going “on strike” with regard to picking up her husband’s socks, “to see how l long it takes him to do it himself.”

In a video posted to TikTok, @miijulie11 filmed the same spot in her house every day, while the socks piled up.

Newsweek reported the clip, which has been viewed 1.9 million times and shows an increasingly large pile of socks.

@miijulie11 Right I’m going on strike. I’m a wife not a maid ???? #wifeonstrike #husbandwifecomedy #husband #husbandwife #annoyinghusband #bants #banter #strike #annoyinghabits ♬ Funny Song – Cavendish Music

Polling by Gallup in 2020 found that women are still responsible for the lion’s share of household chores.

It said that, overall, women do 58% of the laundry and 51% of the cleaning and cooking, although these proportions have fallen by 12 percentage points each since 1996.