Wow!! Time flies! We are already halfway through 2011. And such a lot has happened since I last wrote anything here. The recent news bulleteins contained 2 royal weddings; a Norwegian man goes on a shooting rampage in Oslo; rock star Amy Whitehouse dies from a suspected drug overdose; and Nelson Mandela turned 93 years old! Well of course there were other events but these are the one's that stand out for me........oh yes not to forget the Japanese earthquake/tsunami disaster. But these events are now part of our history ........ so what about the future? Locally everbody appears to want better salaries and so have taken to the streets to protest for higher wages. These strike actions were mostly bought to a halt after both parties came to an agreeable solution, but now I see the local Durban Municipal cleaners are going on strike on Monday. Does this mean our streets will once again become one big rubbish dump as in their last strike action? I hope not.
As the photos show, the strikers thought it would be a good idea to empty the garbage bags in the street. I wonder if they ever thought about it beforehand, who will clean it up afterwards? I mean look at it.............these were the scenes in 2009/2010. I just hope they will have a skeleton staff to at least remove your rubbish from your premises. Living in Durban my pet hate is bad service delivery, and it looks like I may be able to do something about it now. I have volunteered to stand on the DA committee for Ward 27, we all like to complain but we don't do anything about it. So 2011 for me looks like an interesting year for me, it looks like I'll have lots of things to write about here. If you live in Durban and are in Ward 27 I would like to hear from you. Til next time.......take care!
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