Web of Lies... ☼o☼

Back in 2012 we employed a domestic worker for a while and in her time of service, aside from cleaning us out, we learned something very interesting and I find it quite funny that our dear President seems to be teaching us this exact lesson about a year later.

To keep a short story shorter, there was this one week in particular… well it was her second week to be honest – where our dear worker had decided that one week was enough to show us that she could clean, though what she did clean to this day I would never be able to tell you, except if you were referring to my mother’s jewellery, the linen cupboards, our wardrobes and kitchen cupboards, those she cleaned out pretty nicely...

Anyway, in this second week of being employed she had decided that a go slow(er) was due and after having been in desperate need of someone to help around the house to clean and keep everything in order as everyone else was out working and trying to ensure there still existed a house to return to, as well as a new mouth to feed with her entry to the household, you can imagine frustration was starting to boil.

So as the week dragged on and realization began to grow at missing objects and other things, along with tenth layers of dust growing on things, tensions strained, but work schedules that lead to the situation still existed. Eventually, in the middle of the week tempers flared and the woman was given an ultimatum, step up or step out.

Come Friday, it had seemed like the woman had taken the warning seriously... and the next week, same thing. Of course things still seemed to go missing, but it was just brushed off as ‘misplaced’ or ‘old age imaginings’ on my parent’s part. But that all changed on the Monday of the fourth week.

You see, over the weekend my mother had moved some chair by accident and came across the biggest spider web any one of us had ever seen. This thing had literally become part of the furniture and wall. It was the type of thing you only saw in movies and there it was, just chilling like it was part of the decor.

I will never forget the day my mother confronted the woman about it the next time she saw her. The response was unbelievable.

‘It must have grown over the weekend…’

Seriously… that was her exact words.

Now I’m no expert in spider webs, but I’m pretty sure that thing took at least a few weeks of work, maybe even months. But like I said I’m no expert.

But those words… I can’t help but think if this is what JZ is thinking when he spins his own web of lies trying to cover up all those scandals hovering around Nkandla.

I mean how do you not know what’s happening around you?

Just like that woman was supposedly ‘cleaning’ our house, while completely unaware of this giant spider web being constructed, was JZ also just signing away laws to dig deeper into our salaries while completely unaware that right outside his window big-ass cranes were building stuff that he may or may not have asked for?

I’m sorry, but if someone started digging a giant hole and making it look all fancy and stuff, I’d start questioning why, way before someone else brought that up, especially when I wasn’t sure if I was footing the bill or not.

I really hope JZ has a better comeback than his previous statements made in 2012 of ‘I don’t know what the government came to do’ or ‘where these plans came from’. 

Last I checked Mr President, you were part and ruling parcel of the government and things don’t necessarily happen without you not knowing.

Nothing just happens ‘over the weekend’.