Lets try to commit Harakiri!

I am not one to criticise SA constantly because I live here, make my living in this country and do not think that there is a better place in the world, but sometimes it becomes a bit much and surely we need to draw a line somewhere.  Between the fact that we had no electricity for more than 24 hours because on an undetermined fault at a local electricity box and despite the phone calls and reporting the problem the technicians, are working on the problem.  This sort of constant non performance at local authority level is driving the country into the ground.  There just has to be more accountability and better maintenance and service delivery.  We are all sick and tired of the basics not working.  To make matters worse I then had to endure strange and inconsistent judging at a local ballet festival and left me thinking again how it is that basic standards and integrity need to be at the heart of this country, but it can never be, because right to the top of leadership in this country, there is far too much corruption and downright dishonesty.  So why would there not be the same in every area of society from policing, to business and general mores (customs).  No sooner had I endured my afternoon and thought that a positive gym session would rectify my negative thoughts, I then had to suffer the total embarrassment of South Africa producing another string of firsts at the World Cup opener, and all for the wrong reasons.  Not only did we concede more points than in any other world cup encounter, and suffer a loss in our opening match with the most capped and experienced team ever assembled, but we manged to do it against Japan who have only ever won 1 match in world cup history and that against Zimbabwe.  We better be grateful that they are not in our pool, or another upset could be on the cards.  And to make it worse for me was that Japan has an arrogant Aussie coach, who somehow gets them to play confident rugby against us.  What more will I see!  I know that rugby is merely a game and lights do go out elsewhere in the world and judges do make mistakes, but this is all too common in our country.  It is time to take a stand and be the incredible nation of winners, to stop raising irrelevant issues like apartheid and quotas and previous disadvantages and to start raising the standards of this rainbow nation one small step at a time.  Eventually we will find that all the little stones that we climb over and get over, will result in us eventually traversing a mountain.  And no more sushi for a few days!!