UseYourWords

[CertifiedEcoTourismDoyenne @ms_tourist]

Hhaybo @WOOLWORTHS_SA your green tea mint flavour can’t be R70. A total rip off

[UseYourWords @anna_igorivna1]

@jk_rowling Nauseating!

[Mteto Nyati @mteton]

In South Africa we have watched a quiet but relentless slide into lawlessness. Jumping traffic lights has become commonplace. Driving under the influence is often treated lightly. Pedestrians cross roads with little regard for the danger. Informal settlements spring up overnight on any open piece of land. Illegal electricity connections are no longer treated as serious offences - they are simply accepted as part of daily life. Informal traders claim pavements and intersections as their own. Prisoners somehow manage to keep smartphones. Driving without a licence is widespread.

One could go on forever. The point is simple: there has been a clear breakdown in law and order.

On the surface, the relaxation of rules is understandable. For decades, harsh and often humiliating laws targeted black South Africans in particular. So society swung from one extreme to the other, from rigid control to an “anything goes” environment.

In many ways this chaos is presented as freedom, the freedom that was denied to the majority for so long. We even open our borders to illegal immigration with the argument: “They took us in when we were running from the apartheid police.” A noble memory, but a problematic policy.

I once listened to a Minister of Correctional Services speaking about prisoners. The minister spoke much like a principal talking about learners, our collective duty to help them reach their full potential. The fact that some of these individuals were rapists, hardened killers and career criminals seemed to fade behind the focus on rehabilitation. We appear to have confused ordinary criminals with the political prisoners of the past. In our emphasis on ubuntu there is often little room left for the discipline that law and order require. It is as if, as a nation, we struggle to hold both compassion and consequences together.

This confused state is not progressive. It is setting us backwards. I know of no country that has ever become successful on a foundation of chaos. We urgently need to strike the right balance, one that honours our painful history without using it as a permanent excuse to abandon the very rules that keep a society from falling apart. #ProudlySA

[Jessica 🗽 @itsOnly_Jessica]

I had an emergency & went to a network hospital, had x-rays, CT scans, bleeding heavily & @Discovery_SA didn’t cover a single thing because causality said “I’ll be okay in a few days”
Had to pay 6k out of pocket coz I wasn’t admitted.
Yet I pay 6.9k every month 😒

USELESS!!!

[Daksha Patel @DakshaGm]

@JHBWater Which suburbs will be affected in detail … not surrounding areas… you can’t say that. When will the water be shut off? We need to know in advance. Was there any work done during the evening into the morning? Are the day shift workers going to shut off water

[TenderRoni @MissDima_Z]

@JHBWater Appreciate you working on it but we need serious answers now. Multiple areas were without water since Saturday. 8 hours after it was restored it burst again?? What incompetence is this ?

[Trxple M London Girl @TrxpleMLondonG]

@JHBWater There is litterally no way, @JHBWater,, why didnt the specialists detect this? What repairs have been happening for the past four days?? For the same thing to happen twice?

[Acclaimed Journalist @Jonathan_Witt]

So there’s a new SARS travel form, a new car license levy on the way, and your solar panels are going to be taxed.

Can anyone give me the last instance when the Government passed any legislation or rules that actually helped the average person as opposed to harming them?

[Enhle Nkosi @vee_Ncash1102]

@JHBWater This is not fair JW, we haven't had water in 3 days and welding only starts now. This is unacceptable

[UseYourWords @anna_igorivna1]

@JHBWater Will you provide an actual update tonight fow when water will be back OR will you leave us to wonder until morning and then tell us that “the team is onsite, we apologise for the inconvenience but no ETR is available”?

[UseYourWords @anna_igorivna1]

@JHBWater Will you provide an actual update tonight fow when water will be back OR will you leave us to wonder until morning and then tell us that “the team is onsite, we apologise for the inconvenience but no ETR is available”?

[Daksha Patel @DakshaGm]

@JHBWater But this message came through at 9h 30 this morning. So , no progress then

[. @akhokwamntu]

@JHBWater "There's currently" there never was an ETR, Y'all have never had one.
Bunch of word stew telling us nothing.

[Aletta Harrison @AlettaHarrison]

@JHBWater Why no estimated time line? Are heading into day 4 without water?

[Darren A. Williams @DAW_Designer]

@JHBWater Why no updates since 9:30am? Do you understand the hygiene issues you're now creating for the affected areas?

[TNinjaZA @TNinjaZA]

@JHBWater @CyrilRamaphosa @PresidencyZA @MYANC @CityofJoburgZA Can some please fire @DadaMorero immediately. No metro should be without water for over going on 4 days now. Especially not Sandton. Fire him!!!

[UseYourWords @anna_igorivna1]

@JHBWater Update please????? Factual ETR - we deserve that after no water since Saturday midday!

[UseYourWords @anna_igorivna1]

@JHBWater Update please????? Factual ETR - we deserve that after no water since Saturday midday!

[Jo'burg Girl @SAfricanJhbGirl]

@JHBWater @JHBWater So your "update" saying that technicians are on-site, contradicts photos showing clearly there are no technicians on-site. Communicate a clear ETR, or just update the honest truth that you're so unqualified you have no clue what's going.

[Daksha Patel @DakshaGm]

@JHBWater What is the latest update? People are driving passed that site and no work is been done. Workers are sitting around in their phones. What is the update?