The confidences of the minister’s driver:
It is the very same just about every year at the very same time. Contrasting on the 1 hand the hysteria during the outcomes of the State Exams, with winners and dad and mom sprinkled with white fufu, as a trophy of maturity immediately after so lots of impediment courses and on the other hand, the feverish, excruciating preparations for the return of breaks, I’m sorry … of key and secondary school classes. For the moment my nervousness is this return to faculty for my only son, a candidate for the last yr of substantial school, the baccalaureate. Just before the major get-togethers, this “blood for blood” son, heir candidate, brought me a voluminous specification: in addition to the regulation white and blue uniform and gymnastic apparel or trendy slippers, the checklist involves a series of guides. to hire and purchase, notebooks, pens, course diaries, blankets, etcetera. Not only that: health care aid bills, motivation expenses for exceptionally mobilized teachers in assist of higher university pupils. Enable! I am a dead man, 10 times useless! … Assistance, Mister the director of our nganda-bar, who guarantees to alleviate my expenditures of school outcomes with a personal loan in “financial institution-Lambert”, that is with desire (20% because of at the end of the month 50% soon after two months 100% soon after 3 months). Enable, my dear boss, Excellency my Minister of Point out for Figures and Methods, who claims me an advance on my wage. Assistance, pricey landlord who owns a great deal who waived my rent by one particular month, to be subtracted from the rental assurance. Help, expensive reverend pastor of my pricey (of my … “flesh”) spouse, who pretends to make aspect of his so-named tithe out there to me. Help, “Agence-Bwakisa-Carte” (each “ligablo-boutique” and informal microcredit agency in our community below), which should assistance me a tiny practically nothing … So in total: I am solvent of a enormous load of debts from a series of ruthless lenders, even among my family members (I was going to say “previously mentioned all” among the my family members …). Needless to say, these money owed are just guarantees (who said “the guarantee is a credit card debt”?). Nevertheless, proper up until now, creditors’ stressing silence. Having said that, the return of the breakups, sorry … courses are scheduled for this 7 days. Nonetheless, my son’s university principal announced in his speech at the end of previous 12 months that classes are no cost. Nevertheless, the teachers’ union explained at the similar time that income scales “will explode upwards” quickly. And include: “Not nonetheless, as with the Deputies, but with a significantly reducible tension”. Even so, as I am sinking into this mourning for the start off of the school calendar year, two “blood for blood” grandchildren arrive from the village, dashing to my house in Kinshasa, with the guarantee (and the debt) of totally free lessons. ..
(connected to YOKA) 05.09.2022
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