Only in South Africa FUNNY!!!

Green Power

Spending fever has reached all walks of South African life. Here’s a fellow who lives in a squatter camp beyond Somerset West in Western Cape who now wants a TV – a new mind, not that second hand thing from the pawn shop window – so he buys one from the High Street furniture retailer.
But he’s back the next day, saying the thing keeps switching off just at the crucial moment. The shop checks it out and can find nothing wrong, but soon enough he’s back with the same complaint.
This time the shop sends out a technician to pop around to see what the problem is. When the technician gets there, he discovers our guy’s shack draws its electricity from a nearby traffic light, and that the TV only works when the light is green.

NOTE: This was taken from one of our newspapers. For those of you who don’t know what a squatter camp or a shack is (in South African terms), it is an illegal (supposed to be anyway) development of “houses” made out of tin, zinc, cardboard – just about anything they can get their hands on.