THUMBSUCK.....?

(begun friday 12th February at 4.25am...)

I'm keen to see how we manage without her.. A couple more Meetings and it will be as if she was never there...*sad... Our CPF Vice-Chair simply crackled with energy and enthusiasm, though it now appears I was alone in my admiration....
When she won the CPF Community Award in December, I was accused (albeit kindly) of rigging the votes...*grins.. Go listen to recordings of the calls I made and check out the mails and texts I sent, and tell me where and how I fixed the voting? Though it was like getting blood from a befokte stone to even get members to bother to cast a vote, it was done fair and square... *shrugs..

We've only one other Member that comes close to filling her footsteps, but were he to be nominated at our March AGM, I'm not at all sure he'd accept..
Looking back I have to concede that as a Sector Forum we've achieved nothing, zip, zilch, nada... We were always discouraged from complaining of any problems residents had with service delivery from SAPS Sydenham, and it was as if our Forum was there solely for the purpose of stroking der Kommissar's giant ego... *teeth..

Her support for One-Eyed Jack has been phenomenal, despite all the evidence pointing to just how seriously depraved the fellow is... I've never judged her for it and instead, I chose to see her protection of der Kommissar as part of an Agenda she'd been given by Leaders in her community...
An agenda she continues to follow zealously, according to the old man when he rang me yesterday evening...

He said that our Vice-Chair (which she remains until the AGM when she is stepping down) had requested that a whole bunch of people at GOCOC on Monday, attend the coming Labour Court hearings to support Tweedledumb...
The old man himself backs the crooked cop unreservedly, and insists that he's innocent until proven guilty... 'Bring me anyone other than yourself who considers the man corrupt' he chirped crossly.. *falls over laughing...
I guess I could do that without breaking sweat hey Laz? *waves....

The hard part is going to be keeping your chommie Balliram under control... His 'freedom of expression' via the powerlines he controls knows no bounds... The more he whacks the journo's appliances, the less chance Salacious Crumb has of converting the good man to his Cause... mon Capitano will find this an almost impossible concept to grasp... *grins...
The Crumb in turn will discover his skills need testing to the limit, as he tries to control Captain Courageous' enthusiasm for his job... *laughing..
Lazarus will find out soon enough (if he hasn't already) that Ballliram is a pathalogical liar and that when his irresponsible mischief-making backfires, he will vehemently deny any culpability... *shrugs...
Does the Station's Intellectual consider himself sharp enough to 'manage' the Not-So-Secret Agent and control his outbursts of petulant rage?

The old man (my own flesh and blood), bristles with injured rage at the suggestion there is any form of surveillance being installed by Mo Shaik's forces... He irritably informed me that there are 400 cameras situated throughout Durban, but that they belong to the Metro Police, and he has been to their Operations room to view them..*cackles.. Old news alas, as I guess it was Councillor Pepler that informed us of this a couple of years back...

How he'd visited the Centre to find to his horror that there was maybe one man available to run the entire show?
My uncle works for Enforce and was furious that I dared suggest there were any surveillance devices installed of which he has no knowledge at all.. Professional pride wounded to the quick! *laughing..
You'll recall how he recently revealed he'd been advised not to attend our Sector Forum Meetings, as all we do is chatter and get nothing done? At my curiosity as to who would tell him such a thing, despite that it's the truth?

Will Superintendent Singh and his apparently obtuse Admin. Clerk be able to elicit the same admiration from the GOCOC attendees as did Tweedledumb? Is the clerk that accompanies Ronnie to the Meetings quite as silly as she appears to be? *fascinated... Is she there simply to compound the bigger picture Salacious Crumb and his Superiors wish to paint? A picture that most certainly resembles what we knew as die Swart Gevaar? *projectile vomits....
Enough.... *waves..

LATER at 8.25am..

Someone extremely powerful decided that allowing Mo Shaik to think he was running the Big Brother Operation was amusing...*looks towards the OldBoyz Network... Set a thief to catch a thief and the fools will buy it? Never mind the innocent victims caught up in your Game? Inevitable casualties of war? *spews....
I guess the Authors of the Project will insist they had inside information that after Mandela's release, certain members of the ruling party had no intention of forming the much touted Rainbow Nation...

That this is the reason that drove the Oldboys Network to enlist the ShaikBoyz as their Operations Managers for the Info Theft Scheme... The Whisperers were a part of the so-called struggle, but were easily persuaded that their own interests were more important than those of the seething masses...
Certainly themselves no strangers to corruption, they were easily enticed by their greed for power, to straddle both camps...*sighs...
We Test Dummies down here in the Zone are considered no more than a minor entertainment for the Troops. A lesson if you will, to demonstrate what will happen to dissenters...
The Craigavon victims are to their credit, not taking it lying down.. *cheers...

Are the Oldboys concerned in any way by the horrific effects suffered by the residents? You have to be kidding me!
The entire debacle will be regarded coldly and clinically as an exercise in surmounting the odd inevitable glitch that occurs along the way.. Whatever path they choose to take will, if successful, be noted and added to the enormous blueprint for gaining absolute control of a country...

I watched a bit of President Zuma's State of the Nation address last night, and found him to be weak and indecisive.. The man is lost and it shows.. Battered on all sides by opposing teams, he looks bewildered by it all....
He's beginning to see that all the promises made to him by his fellow struggle heroes, the ShaikBoyz, aren't coming to pass... *sighs...
Willies and Nathie are telling him one thing, while Mo is singing a different tune altogether, causing the chap some serious indecision...

Every child he ever fathered in his gleeful randiness is to be hunted down and revealed.. His appetite for unprotected sex will head the list the Oldboys have on his weaknesses, to be exploited when necessary... *blinks...
I guess you're comfortable sitting there on the so-called Winning Team?
That you can overlook the Oldboys employment of the Seriously Rotten as long as your assets and way of life are protected? *gags....
The ruling party don't realise how seriously they've been outplayed, and I guess when they finally do, all hell will break loose.. It's pretty much the only card they have left to play.
Was this also a part of the projected plans Jannie? That the deliberately disadvantaged be incited to rise up en masse?
Or is this merely the scenario you've painted to persuade so many to consider the Info Theft Project is the only thing that will ultimately save them?

I guess the list of war casualties is set to rocket? Considered no more than expendible eggs needed to make this grand omelette?
That I took a stand for the Losing Team and backed Augustine Mngomezulu as a good cop, has been derided with ease... When I'd remarked to my pompous uncle on the phone last night, that the tale that the good Superintendent wished to take over and run Dodge City was rubbish, he fell suddenly silent. A story no doubt repeated ad nauseum by der Kommissar and now continued by Barnabas' replacements Supt. Singh and Lazzie?

While the Kennedy Road Abahlali prisoners opened my eyes to the fact that Augustine's Superiors are as callous and manipulative as Barnabas and his cronies, I will continue to stand by my assertion that Superintendent Mngomezulu is both a good man and a good cop.
As much a puppet as you and I, he dances ultimately for the amusement of the OldBoys Network, does he not? *sighs...

I'm temporarily saddened by your generalisations and hasty judgements, but find there are at least some who claim to be trying to rearrange their thought processes for the better...*waves wildly..
The smug complacency of Salacious Crumb and his nervous newly-enrolled side-kick could make for some amusing times ahead... Laz considers he's got control of the situation, but there are so many wild cards lurking in the wings (not the least of which is my own Network Admin, the seriously crooked Colin Balliram), that we'll just have to sit back and watch as the saga drags on... *grins..

Peace...

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Friday 12th February 2010 at 12.55pm.