OPINION: Suffering inflicted on our everyday lives is due to neglect, incompetence and greed

During this extremely hot heatwave we have been experiencing the past few weeks, we are forced to sit and ‘sweat it out in a hotbox’ at times of no electricity, with no fans and no aircons.

Then, to make matters worse, one just has to go onto social media to see how the crime is escalating, so there is no leaving windows and doors open for fresh air – it could cost you your life.

Should one find themselves in a life-threating situation, where there is an intruder on the property or trying to break in, well, tough luck.

Even if your phone hasn’t died from not being able to charge, it’s no good to you because without wi-fi you’re pretty much a sitting duck.

If you have data, nine times out of 10 the towers are down, not to mention that during loadshedding alarms and beams are not operational. Time to buy a gun or just start praying.

Let’s talk food. How many of you have had to discard of meat because it thawed out, not to mention dairy products or the putrid stuffy smell every time you open your fridge door after loadshedding.

Then there are our mature community/pensioners, retirement establishments that pay thousands in petrol costs for their generators to function on a daily basis – not to mention that without electricity the water can’t be pumped from the tanks.

Then you have the family with three to four children and a schedule of no electricity from five to nine in the evening.

Not all parents are financially able to just rush out and buy their family take-aways for dinner every night.

Oh, I forgot, they can ‘go to bed with a sandwich’ while the fat cats responsible for this chaos and upheaval dine on steaks in their fully lit castles.

And whatever you do, don’t ever try and contact Eskom’s offices – the receptionist has gone to a fancy dress parading as Miss Invisible.

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