Lack of planning leads to disruption

I’M going to say it in the most polite way, contrary to what I’m feeling.

I’ve been lying awake listening to people chatting and singing into the ungodly hours of the morning.

I am a working person with two children.

I can still cope with lack of sleep, but what I cannot tolerate is waking up and try to get somewhere with people standing in the street, taking their time to get out of the way, taxis blocking my exit and the street we are living in becoming the camp-out spot to be, with people camping on other people’s front lawns without permission, stripping and dressing with other people driving past and leaving their waste lying around.

I have no issue with the Shembe church personally. What I have an issue with is how this entire gathering has been handled and how inconvenient it is for the rest of us living in the area.

No proper notification was given, no thought into accommodation and hygiene.

I find this gathering lacking some serious thought processes.

I think we should gather in the morning and sing and dance till the mayor comes out. Let’s inconvenience people into ‘submission’, that is the way things are done these days, is it not?

To the guy saying we need to learn to be tolerant of the different cultures, it has nothing to do with culture or religion, just basic common sense that the Shembe Temple was not an adequate enough facility to host such a huge event.

ADELE FOUCHE