Takin' it to the tweets

South African President Jacob Zuma had urged people to use Twitter and Facebook to suggest what his annual state-of-the-nation speech last week should focus on, and plugging potholes and creating jobs were the most common suggestions. As a result of this publicity stunt, South Africa is now going to spend over 20 million rand and create 70,000 jobs to fix potholes. This publicity stunt is going to make the roads a lot safer but there are some better ideas, for instance, they could melt down all their vuvuzelas and use the plastic to fill in the holes. Or maybe the tyres that some bellends there are saving up for a barbaric activity called necklacing (the practice of filling a rubber tyre with petrol, forcing it around the victim's chest and arms, and lighting it on fire causing them to burn to death) could be put to better use in helping to fill up the holes in the roads. Or maybe people could save themselves by giving up smoking and putting whatever's left of their tobacco to good use plugging up a pothole near them. Or, because South Africa has some of the most liberal abortion laws on the continent, the aborted foetuses could be buried in the holes. Or if they just want to use bitumen to plug up the holes, that's their choice too.