Big Brother Africa 4: Are we too revolutionary for the ‘Revolution’?

WITH all three of Namibia’s housemates up for eviction this week, it’s difficult not to feel hard done by!
Added to that, Big Brother seems to have decided after the fact that, three housemates will be evicted this week.

Why? Are the twins a little too risqué for Biggie’s boss – and other bloody moralistic powers that be? I find it very hard to believe that evicting three housemates was in the original plan for week four of BBA4. Seems to me the decision was taken after they saw who was up for eviction and there’s a widespread feeling on BBA forums that Big Brother is trying to orchestrate a winner from a particular country – Nigeria is my guess! The last-minute nature of the decision to evict three this week – it was only announced late on Tuesday – smells rather rotten. It gets my inner cynic all worked up. Is the goal of the show to entertain Africa or to appease those who call for higher morals in the BBA house? TESTING TIMESFor crying out loud – the show has an 18 rating. If people don’t like watching young people dancing, hooking up and partying then don’t watch it. If you want to watch a moral show – tune into Hallmark’s wholesome entertainment or give Joyce Meyer a go on TBN. If parents want to shield their children from BBA, DStv provides a nifty parental control function that blocks the programme – easy as that. But don’t feed us a reality show that bows to the preferences of a few. Give us back the entertainment show we have become accustomed to! The formula has been proven to work the world over. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!Biggie is really pissing me off big time! They’ve already taken away shower hour – not too bothered about that personally, but there are lots out there who are. They give the housemates only two bottles of booze – on those few nights when Biggie decides they can get alcohol. Do the math people: 9 guys + 8 girls = 17 people. I’m not promoting alcoholism, nor the abuse of alcohol.However, how can 17 people loosen up on two bottles of booze? How do they expect any crazy shenanigans to take place when everyone’s always sober? I presume they’re trying to avoid a repeat of the unfortunate ‘fingergate’ incident that took place in BBA2. Still, they’re taking it too far. All people are talking about now is how bloody frustrated they are! I’d give the housemates at least four bottles of booze and see how well they handle it, then take it from there. These are adults in the house – not schoolchildren. At the moment there seems to be a constant sense of dissatisfaction, both within and outside the house. Shame, some of the housemates have even taken to trying to make their own homebrew just to get a decent buzz on.Another one of my loooong list of complaints is – once again – and I’m sorry if I’m starting to sound like a broken record but what’s up with the censorship? Monday night as I was waiting for the weekly nomination show to start, the twins decided to lighten the mood in the house with an impromptu striptease. Just as I was beginning to feel mildly entertained, the camera promptly switched to boring old Yacob and a few others sitting on the patio having a fag! Hello! On the entertainment scale – what ranks highest? A naughty striptease or some boring guy smoking a cigarette? This season is simply infuriating and I may just stop watching altogether, depending on what happens on Sunday’s eviction show. They say Big Brother reserves the right to change the rules as and when he/she sees fit – so change the rules now. Throw a fabulous twist in there – anything – just don’t let it be that all our housemates get the boot in one go.Seems the twins and even Rene have gained something of a following outside of Namibia. A Facebook support group has sprung up and it already has 1 441 members from as far afield as Norway and Zanzibar. Even with all this support, the problem is, with this new decision to evict three on Sunday – two if not all of our housemates will be out. Namibians are left between a rock and a hard place. Who do we vote for? Some are saying we should choose just one person and concentrate our votes entirely on them. Perhaps this is the way to go but at the end of the day, we don’t know if Biggie has an ace up his/her sleeve a la Tawana and Latoya’s week-long stay in the recycle bin in last year’s show. Let’s hope so!Fans on various BBA forums are just as upset as we are.* One of the forum members, named Truthteller says: ‘I believe they only made this decision after they saw who was up for nominations. It was their first step in getting rid of the treble from Namibia.’ * ER commented: ‘Sad thing is that we lose ENTERTAINERS this weekend …. what a pity with this chance of 3 x evictions we could not have had 3 x really boring housemates up.’* Tinks commented that the decision to evict three housemates is illogical: ‘It doesn’t make any sense. The more people they leave in the more entertaining it is for the viewers. Not happy with this at all. We will be losing 3 strong people.’ Eish!THE HERDMeanwhile back in BBAland, the housemates are hopping and baa-ing as sheep in this week’s Endurance task. They’ve been provided with materials to create a unique sheep outfit – apparently it’s hilarious to watch. They also have to take part in various sheepish tasks – like jumping over a sheep fence 100 times; they’re not allowed to sleep during the day, and are being kept to having only four hours of sleep a night; and are not allowed to talk about being tired!Make sure you check out the task presentation, tonight from about 19h00 on Channel 198.Keep voting ya’ll!