Loadshedding can really clog up the roads.
Traffic lights fail and are too often replaced by an unqualified person doing their best to conduct traffic all in the name of a few tips, can’t knock it all the way, there is no such thing as a bad hustle.
It is however dangerous.
Fortunately, there is a cluster of pointsmen based in Johannesburg who make it their business to orchestrate the busiest intersections like the philharmonic.
Read more | LET'S DO LUNCH | Enter the world of a behavioral analyst for kids with autism
You must have seen them roaming around, prowling the roads for intersections that need service. They’re usually clad in green, with Outsurance branding all over their bikes and luminescent green jackets and caps.
Their hands, draped in gloves, dart about the air as they assume the role of a three-phase robot that leads both on and off a busy highway. If you take a moment and watch these people work, it’s like an art that requires nerves of steel.
Read more | BEHIND THE BRAND | Lasizwe on being a star at a young age and becoming a household name
We see life through the eyes of Errol Mushwani as he cruises in a peloton of pointsman bikers as they reveal the joys, and difficulties of being a pointsmen.
