Ahmed Areff | It's enough! The great unwashed and powerless now need to cause a stink

South Africans need to make politicians' lives miserable, and never let them forget that their job is to look after us. Without us, they are nothing, writes Ahmed Areff.

When the taps in my home ran dry this weekend, my initial reaction was to laugh. Things like this tend to happen often in my neighbourhood, and I reassure myself that it's the acceptable cost of finding a decently priced home with a nice yard so that my family can live out their hobbit-like, being-one-with-nature fantasies.