With the kids on school holidays and family over from the UK, there’s a distinct lack of order and rhythm in our lives at the moment. I’m not saying that this is a bad thing, but I am saying that you’ll probably have noticed that this usually very concise, organised, carefully constructed blog isn’t… well… any of those things at the moment.
Sorry about that.
Another thing that isn’t happening is me looking at any of the news or media sites. Again, I’m not saying that this is a bad thing, because it’s rare that there’s happy happy joy joy stuff being spread via those means. But my absence, followed by a quick dip or delve in makes me wonder just how I could have missed some of the bigger stories. Like… did this just slip under the radar yesterday, or was everyone except me talking about it?
The De Ruyter in question being the outgoing CEO of Eskom, our ailing “electricity” “generation” and “distribution” parastatal.
I have so many questions.
Does this happen to the heads of state entities in other countries* as well?
Cyanide in his coffee? That’s proper old school Cold War stuff.
But it must also surely limit the number of suspects: The tea lady. The coffee man. The mysterious individual with the small glass vial who popped into the office canteen for a couple of minutes on Tuesday morning. The office cyanide suppliers.
There are easier way to kill people. High velocity lead poisoning is very popular in SA, I believe.
Why wait three weeks to tell the police?
How did the hospital detect the poisoning so quickly? Were there suspicions that he had been poisoned or was going to be poisoned, because you’re surely (and reasonably) going to go down the viral food poisoning route first with those symptoms, and then only realise that you’re too late to put things right when you are too late to put things right. I’m just saying that cyanide poisoning a rather unusual thing to investigate for on first line tests. Either a very astute medic or some insider knowledge.
And then there are those that believe that this is all some sort of hoax or false flag. No reasoning is given by these individuals, but then, looking at the names involved, they’re not known for their powers of reasoning.
Thankfully, there is one voice of sanity out there:
Dangerous stuff, indeed. And something which most ER staff in SA would immediately consider with a confused, disorientated or collapsed middle aged man arriving at their door.
I realise that it’s just a joke, but it says a lot about how thing work in the country that it’s as reasonable a theory as anything anyone else has suggested. Including the truth.
Whatever that may be.
* well, Russia, obviously.