The raindrops were literally drying on my helmet visor when I spotted Buffalo City traffic cops setting up their ATM at the entrance to the Gonubie cement road. I mean, they were emptying pockets metres from the circle leading off the old R102 Farmarama circle. Google tells me they were one minute away from where Anthropogene, the climate monster, came and bit off chunks of bitumen and road metal barriers.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has "alerted" Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa to the launch of the Border Management Authority (BMA), despite South Africa's battle to control the influx of illegal foreigners from neighbouring countries.