Big Brother Africa 4: Paranoia in a time of interceptor centres

OK BBA nation, the Honourable Member of the House of Review, Jhonny Hakaye, is probably going to accuse me of paranoid schizophrenia, but I really feel that there’s not enough ‘spying’ going on in the Big Brother House.

S’true!There are 40 – I kid you not, forty – cameras, and 100 microphones in the house, but each time there’s a terror threat … oops, I mean any sign of action, or interaction, the cameras briskly cut away to focus on the designer fridge, vegetables being vegetables or Quinn mopping the floor.And I’m not talking sex here! I have no interest whatsoever in Phil’s sleeping habits, or Namibia’s flashing Scotsman, Erastus, advertising the desert’s mysteries.Why oh why, though, do the cameras bolt – faster than Usain – just when a conversation starts to get interesting [Edward and the smoking circle], or when a disagreement reaches boiling point [Kaone and Phil], or when the guys horse around [Phil and the blanket], to mention a few examples.In the blogosphere and on the forums, complaints are rolling in faster than you can say interceptor centres. Eish, even part-time viewers have approached me, in person, to lodge their complaints. So much so that I’m starting to feel like I’m running the Ombudsman’s office!And you must know that if people who don’t really watch BBA are feeling cheated, something’s up – not that we’d know anyway, given those paranoid cameras.Please, please, dear Honourable Hakaye, as much as we may disagree on personal freedoms, I think you and I need to join forces on this one.As you yourself said in the National Council yesterday, ‘we should not let the people down or fail them’.I know we’re talking about two different realities here, but at the end of the day, reality is reality.And a reality show’s meant to be just that. Reality. Not sanitised reality – we get enough of that in ‘real life’.Eish, now that I’ve managed to elude those dratted interceptor centres for a few fleeting minutes, I’m free to exercise my democratic rights and give you a brief update on instigators and incubators.The BBA text strip is all a-titter over Jemma … Jeremy and Emma.Sweet-faced Emma and Jeremy and his entourage of buff muscles got all cosy on Monday night. Cosy people, cosy. Not sexy with-it.They lay in adjoining beds, pushed together, chatting into the wee hours of the morning, separated by only a hair’s breadth.Romance was immediately proclaimed on the text strip! But whether it’ll develop into anything more remains to be seen. Still the tender bedtime talk’s done enough to get pulses racing in BBA nation.In other developments, Rene and Phil have been doing just a little more than cosying up. Hold it, don’t get the wrong idea now. I said a little more. Seems they might just have kissed.Rene shared Phil’s bed, and during his diary session yesterday, he told Biggie headmistress that they ‘didn’t do anything’.Still, he thinks they might have kissed on the first night but he doesn’t quite remember. Yeah, yeah.That’s not the least of it, though. Phili-bluster thinks he might be in a love triangle!Yes, you heard me right. He told Biggie headmistress that he also really likes Elizabeth, but that they started off on a ‘very cool note’. Now he’s worried that he may have sent the wrong signal to Rene and, in turn, jeopardised his chances with Elizabeth.Dude, I think you need your own personal interceptor centre!Stay tuned.