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May Day!
So yesterday was May Day. I love this day every year, although unfortunately (or maybe fortunately) not much seems to happen in George.
In South Africa, lots of people seem to associate this day with communism. For some, this is the one day of the year they can put on their red t-shirts and wave a flag with the sickle and hammer pretty-much anywhere without feeling bad about it. Gather comrades, this is the day of the labourer! They seem to think it's much fun, feeling part of a revolution and all. Then the next day, we can all go back to selfishly making tons of money and sticking it into our own pockets, delighting in the joys of shameless capitalism and feeling superior to the poor bastards in communist (or even former-communist) countries that struggle to earn 10% in a month of what we earn in half a day.
Viva, comrades, viva! Who ever said hypocrisy is a bad thing???
Copyright © 2004-2009 Charl van Niekerk. All articles are released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 South Africa licence, unless where otherwise stated.
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