Small things can make a difference

It's a small thing, I know. We live in a country with extreme poverty, joblessness and major challenges when it comes to basic service delivery.

- JACQUES VAN DER WESTHUYZEN

The majority of the people in this country deserve better, mainly from the government.

But often it is the small things that can make a big difference, something that can, and would, ease the stress levels just a bit each day.

And that is to have working traffic lights.

Yes, it is a small thing, but it is also a massive thing.

For the life of me, I cannot understand how we cannot ensure that our traffic lights work all the time.

I can understand if there is load shedding, but we haven't had that for months now and yet, all across our city, there are traffic lights that simply don't do what they're supposed to.