A lot of hot air hovers

IN RECENT weeks there has been a lot of hot air hovering over Cyril Ramaphosa and Lindiwe Sisulu.

If media reports are to be believed, Sisulu is positioning herself to topple Ramaphosa as ANC president at the party’s national elective conference in December this year.

Based on our growing levels of unemployment, poverty and inequality, Ramaphosa doesn’t deserve a second chance. But you’d struggle to find someone more capable within the governing party to replace him.

Sisulu, who has been in government for more than two decades, has done little to suggest she can change our fortunes.

While they were engaged in a game of character assassination, snow fell in the Sahara desert, one of the hottest areas in the world.

According to media reports, temperatures around the Algerian town of Ain Séfra dropped below -2 degrees resulting in parts of the surrounding desert being dusted with snow.

Residents told the BBC their first living memory of snow was in 1979. But in recent years (2016, 2017, 2018 and 2021) it has snowed.

Some say climate change is behind the extreme changes in weather.

We can’t say for sure because nobody is researching the matter and our politicians are so busy fighting each other, snow in the Sahara is not a priority.