I was confronted with a question as to why South Africa is referred to as “The Rainbow Nation”. The enquiry went further; “Are all South Africans happy people?” I went into detail as to why we became known as “The Rainbow Nation”.

I also pointed out that although South Africa was one of the first countries to allow happy people to get married, not everybody in South Africa is happy and that I took a slight offence to the inference. I didn’t really raise some of the thoughts I had about him like what a big male member he was being.

I kept that to myself. It seemed impolite. It’s not that I was being a cat about things but sometimes I tend to hold my tongue on things. I believe that you shouldn’t always point out the obvious and that it is somebody else’s job to do that. Many a government employee shares the same sentiment. Some lessons are learned the hard way and the price of ignorance is that which I am ignorant of.

This is something that I think our highly esteemed Public Protector will soon find out. I have serious reservations about her law degree but she was voted in by our honorable people of highly debatable intelligence quotient so what can I say? Also her portrayal by the media as a hard-nosed female version of a dog will not erase that fact and people who do such should wash their mouths with soap I do so believe.

I do pray though that she has the interests of people lacking the means to live a life considered comfortable or normal in our society at heart.

There is so many of us in that category and there is no end in sight. We pray and we pray and then some slightly upper on the IQ ladder take advantage of this and make us eat snakes and grass and spray us with insecticides and make us drink petrol there’s just no respite. This is why people from Dubai have taken a strong feeling of intimacy towards us.

They think us a people with high inclinations of experiencing winter weather in our leg warmers. Maybe all of this is just a warm summer’s day beckoning. We are a Rainbow Nation after all and that means we became after a storm.