Week of happenings

Thulaganyo Jankey | Wednesday July 5, 2023 06:00

What was supposed to be an afternoon of fun quickly degenerated into a farce. Spectators at the Toyota Desert Race lost it. It seems the whole country is caught up in some silent competition to get the best pictures of any event they attend.

So when the race vehicles were busy trying to outdo each other the race enthusiasts got up to all sorts of misdemeanour trying to get the best shots of the whole spectacle including getting on the path of the race vehicles. The curse of the Titanic struck again across the oceans when a little group of very rich people shorn of their full mental faculties did the unthinkable and went on a deep-sea tour to see the Titanic.

Their choice of transport was a little capsule that looks similar to a water geyser. Most ordinary folks could not understand it. “How could they use something like that”, we asked. But these are rich people who have their own kind of fun – different from everyone else’s. They don’t go to the park where they are likely to have arguments with mortals struggling with their mortgages.

Rich people don’t go to sports venues where blobs of people sing in the rain wearing nothing but paint and likely to pick an argument over the shape of the ball or the size of the referee’s pants. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man in possession of a good fortune must one day explore the sea and see what the heaven happened to the Titanic. So these legends got into that little capsule and carried some oxygen to help them breath and stay alive. But like all misadventures something went wrong.

The trusted vessel betrayed the occupants’ trust and decided to behave like its cousin, the Titanic. Little wonder it was called the Titan. The oxygen too ran out. Sadly that is how the billionaires epilogued. But there were positive news. Will Smith is in town – well in the American sense since they think Africa is a country and so Botswana must be a town. The popular actor seems at peace here far away from his wife who is routinely having entanglements with the opposite sex that is not hubby Will Smith.

Latching on the entanglement theme, the local lasses seem intent on helping Will Smith exact revenge on the delinquent wife with a roving eye. There’s a picture doing the rounds of him holding a love-smitten, star-struck lady somewhere deep in the delta. There must be other pictures of this sort that have not made their way into social media.

These sorts of entanglements are most likely lined up here by the dozens. By the time he leaves here he would be so entangled like my grandmother’s yarn that we will need lots of skilled tailors to untangle him. Will Smith is a hit with the locals. He has been ever since we saw him in acting roles in Fresh Prince of Bel Air and the Bad Boys series.

So coming down here without wife Jada Pinkett was a masterstroke and the locals just could not pass up the opportunity. In the latest video he’s seen dancing with a traditional dance troupe like he has been doing it for years. A toughie in the movies but he really looked like a softie in real life. Is he going back? Well, not many would want him to go back home as yet. (For comments, feedback and insults email inkspills1969@gmail.com) Thulaganyo Jankey is a training consultant who runs his own training consultancy that provides training in BQA- accredited courses. His other services include registering consultancies with BQA and developing training courses. Contact him on 74447920 or email ultimaxtraining@gmail.com.