Controlling Your Anger!

Salamu

So after my pleasurable post yesterday with my favorite girl from Pretoria and her delectable friend from Cape Town we move onto more serious matters. 

For those who have not read it yet have a gander below it is worth a read. 

Onto more serious matters...I was watching Trevor Noah's latest offering the other night and what makes him funny is that he can get into the essence of South African culture and make it so true. In one of his skits he says: "Its funny how South Africa works. When the rest of the world finds a trend and turns left...South Africa will decide to rebel and go right and tell the rest of the world that they will meet them there!"

This perfectly illustrates that we are a different breed. South Africa are not world leading in many things, but one aspect we are world leading in is venting out anger. 

Alexandra Township in Johannesburg...residents are pissed off that services that were promised to them by the City of Johannesburg are not being delivered. What do they do, they burn cars, burn tires and swing cactus plants. Have you ever been so angry that you swing a cactus? 

This though you can understand.When someone promises you something that is supposed to better your life and they don't deliver, then people are going to get well iggy. Like I said, I have been to one of these service delivery protests and the tension at these things is so fragile that the slightest ignighter will cause serious shit to go down.

A video of a taxi driver laying the smackdown on an arrogant pedestrian has gone viral on the net. have a look at the clip below...

In the video a taxi is driving at the bottom of the screen. A pedestrian arrogantly walks and cuts in front of it and walks onto the pavement. The taxi driver got so pissed off with this that he ramped the pavement and drove into the guy trapping his leg under his front wheel. He then reverses and gets back on the road. he drives a few metres, stops the taxi, puts his hazard lights on and then gets out the taxi to kick the shit out of the guy who is now on his feet. He then drives off. The Star newspaper led with it today and said that the driver is from Bloemfontein and appeared in the Magistrates Court, but was later released. 

Listen I have to deal with son of a bitch pedestrians like the guy in this video every day, but I dont try and run him over and I don't try and lay the smackdown on him. I swear at him, and his mother, and his sister, and his kids, and his dog...cat...fish whatever, but I dont lay the smackdown on him. 

But this does not mean it is limited to South Africa. Reading the latest FHM it details a riot in Tottenham England where an IKEA Store held a midnight sale where couches were on sale for 45 Pounds. 2 500 people qued up and broke down the doors of the store. Eventually after an hour of rioting the staff got the doors closed to stop more people from coming in, but they still had to call the riot police because punters in the store were laying the smackdown on each other.

Mei jua daima kuwa kabla yenu, na vivuli nyuma yako!