Are we truly the masters of our own destiny ? Looking at our environment, I seriously doubt it. There are early warning signals of lemmingitus when you start appreciating jelly moulds [ read new cars ], or tuscan secure developments, you start accepting the power cuts, the incorrect billing, you read passively as you hear of another senseless rape or murder, or even more passively when you hear of the regional government official who travels by jet to work every day incurring costs of 12 million rands a year to the tax payer. It can be overwhelming, not the actions themselves necessarily, but the fact that there seems to be no redress, no accountability, no responsibility taken.

Whats it like trying to sort out a rates bill that has got an extra nought on it, a phone bill that includes Mogadishu and Karachi calls on it, how about trying to get in touch with the police commander, chief licencing officer, credit manager at the bank [ not available to the public [ read clients ], the right person at SARS, [ the call centres seem to be manned entirely by casual labour with scant knowledge of anything ], your local MP [ in Rio attending a conference on beach pollution, business class upgrade of course ], or how about an ambulance?, a police response unit or fire engine ?

We have got a world of changing to do and it must surely start with accountability ?