Day 72 - Road Gang Strikes Again

 

Lockdown Day 72 - Level 3 Day 6 - Since the National Coronavirus Lockdown started 72 days ago the Johannesburg Roads Department have been operating on skeleton staff even though the other Johannesburg Municipality departments such as Water and Sanitation have been fully operational. As for the roads well here we are, our roads are full of potholes that the general public have to repair the roads themselves.

Today the Roodekrans Neighbourhood Watch got volunteers together and started repair the really serious potholes, the ones that were damaging cars. Thank you RNW for doing what you doing and showing the local government how to do their work.

Enough is Enough

After 10 days in the platteland, is was just good to get into the car and head for home. Visiting new places can be exciting but there comes a point where you just can't wait to sleep in your own bed and eat a home cooked meal even if it means leaving at 8pm and driving through the night but enough is enough. Ons gaan huis toe. Eish I am starting to talk only Afrikaans now. See ya all in the morning.

Closed Crime Scene

Thank goodness that I went to work today on my Vespa. Little did I know that 50 kilometres away a minibus taxi and the police had a confrontation with bullets flying and the taxi fleeing south. By the time the taxi reached the section of highway next to my work, a police helicopter was firing into the taxi from the air with the taxi driver and his accomplice returning fire. The bullet riddled taxi soon came to a halt a few 100 metres from my work with the driver shot in the upper leg and accomplice fleeing the scene.

The highway was closed for the rest of the day and early evening. The traffic from here on out was catastrophic. The crime scene was crawling with more South African Police and Metro Police than I ever thought existed in Johannesburg. Only in South Africa.

Corner Commerce

Operation Parking Lot

Coming unstuck on the way back

Pushing: Calvin, Jodi and Mark
Watching:Tessa and Natalie

Stuck in traffic

Mense! Lekkerder in Afrikaans