That is correct. A real lion has been fingered (no) as reason why potential voters from the Vhembe region in Limpopo were not able to register to vote this past weekend for the upcoming local government elections. I’m thinking The Ghost and the Darkness and humming the chorus to Bon Jovi – Wild In The Streets.

Africa is a beautiful place to live in for the most part. We even have an ambiguously useful saying: this is Africa.

But every so often you really do have to have a laugh at our symbiotic relationships with nature. Especially when something rather serious can be looked upon and laughed at for that very simple reason: this is Africa.

The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) provincial electoral chief, Nkaro Matete, explained at a media conference in Polokwane on Monday that the lion had apparently escaped from the Makuye park near Mutale.

“There was a reported case of intimidation in Mutale where a lion scared off several voters from voting stations,” he said.

The old way of dealing with the problem. (The lion problem, not voter registration. Okay, maybe both.)

Environmental Affairs department spokesperson, Joshua Kwapa, has since stated that: “Our rangers are on high alert looking for the lion, but we suspect it may have gone back into the wild.” Like any well-behaved kitty would do.

Hopefully no politicians write any open letters to the lion expressing their disgust at its bloody agent-like behaviour.

[Source: News24]