Weekly Digest #2

North Korea have abandoned their peace pact with South Korea, and have threatened the US with a pre-emptive nuclear strike : nuclear war seems to be a threat, as of late. There have been assertions that the US are at no risk of such a strike, but there are warnings that South Korea still remains vulnerable, and apparently Japan should be careful as well. From a reader's perspective, I almost look forward to the day that bio-warfare becomes a thing. Then I stop and realise that that would really suck. Perhaps I'm just in my own world where I think that I'd probably be one of those evolved super-humans who is immune to whatever disease becomes air-borne, and that my body holds the cure. Poor human race: I don't do well with needles, so it's just going to be me and the rest of the superior folk to remain on this earth. 

Fine, Ted Dekker is a really great author. And that's all I can say. Even though this has now become rather impalpable.

Homeless man’s scrap metal turns out tobe a live mortar bomb : reporting a "suspicious man" lead to  the discovery of a live mortar bomb, possibly from WWII, in the Durban-area last week. There was shady handling of the situation: Desmond Daniels, from UTI Electronics, who discovered the man and his trolley, suspected that the found bomb was live, and moved it to an open field in case it went off. When a police van drove past and Daniels reported the incident, they advised what to do, and drove off. Also, the suspect has subsequently disappeared. I find this story very bizzarre. Where could it have come from, why was he carrying it around, and what a random situation! Perhaps the reporting of the case is a little bit lacking, and this is why the circumstances are not clear: there are so many issues with this story, what could you decide to focus on?

Patients had clean their ward after thehospital cleaners didn’t show up for work : mothers in the maternity ward at Frere Hospital were told that if they did not clean up after themselves, their babies would get lung infections. When cleaning staff did not arrive to work, the inhabitants of the Kangaroo ward were told to clean the ward, and had to remove rubbish, change sheets, and mop the floors. Great healthcare we provide in this province of the Eastern Cape (note the sarcasm).