Magreth Nunuhe
WE have hardly entered the new year and some of you have already started with your bombaai goede, like insulting a magistrate for not granting you bail when you were the one who did mampara things.
Etche, did he think for one instance the courtroom was a shebeen? I don’t know what this kamashona was initially accused of before absconding custody and being caught again, but in my eyes he has already made himself guilty as charged by his unruly behaviour.
Imagine if we were each allowed to cut someone’s head off with a pair of scissors for treating us unjustly or rudely – huuuu, I could see some institutions becoming ghost buildings, but because we have a justice system in place, we have to abide by rules.
The law is the law and it says that you are innocent until proven guilty, but it doesn’t mean that you can just walk into a courtroom with your tail high in the air like you are some kind of Al Capone mafiaso who is untouchable and expect the judge to shiver when he sees you.
You can be the umfindisi of the streets wena, but once you enter that place where you see all those very important people in their black cloth speaking very expensive English, you better humble yourself like you are standing at the gates of heaven and St Peter is asking you why he should let you in while watching your chomas who have been rejected from entering the Garden of Eden grinding their teeth in agony.
Many of us have graduated from the Street of Hard Knocks where we have been indomitable kings and queens.
We have been in weird situations where we just wished the earth could swallow us up, but we soon learned the hard way that there is no short cut to success – only patience, perseverance and determination is de way in the words of former US President Calvin Coolidge.
The rules are simple – just obey the law.
If a traffic officer pulls you over, don’t think that because you drive a fast Beemer you can escape in the confusion. These tates and memes of the law don’t go for years of training for mahala only to be surprised by some laughable nyakati criminal who is a fanatic of the God Father movie sequels.
Even if you have little respect for the gatas and you think they have nothing on the ‘cops and crooks’ show you watched the other day, you are in for a big surprise.
Like this one episode where a suspect apparently tried to steal a stove from his job.
Of all things, why the big the stove vakuetu and that kama because he has many mouths to feed. Now, was he planning to braai the offspring on the stove of mati?
I mean, what was he going to do with the stove if there is also no food to cook on since he is broke?
I always have compassion for our most distraught and destitute, but some of you né. Sorry Ngo!
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