“We suck!” say South Africans by Chris McEvoy
Like most writers, I'm in two minds about reader feedback. On the one hand, I'm always interested to know what readers think of my work, and on the other, I want to find out where they live, knock on their door, and shoot them in the face.
Now don't take that the wrong way. My favourite section of any newspaper is the letters pages, and I believe one of the great advantages of the internet is its limitless potential for reply. But nothing challenges my commitment to defending our constitutional right to freedom of expression quite like the opinion of other South Africans.
I confess, it's often a perverse attraction. Letters pages and comments boards grip me with all the morbid fascination of a road accident. What will the crazy, faceless people come up with this time? I ask myself excitedly as I scroll down to the comments. It's like rubber-necking the aftermath of a head-on collision between Christopher Reeve and Stephen Hawking – sad and awful, but in a totally hilarious sort of way.
And it’s especially amusing when they get angry, as British motoring journalist Jeremy Clarkson found out after writing a Sunday Times column on his latest visit to Johannesburg. SAfricans from all over the world were quick to tell Jeremy that he was obviously drunk or high on Durban Poison the whole time he was visiting, and that an ignorant idiot like him should shut his stupid mouth stick to writing about cars. Nasty!
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