Daily Sun Bliss

I have always been an evangelical defender of the broadsheet newspaper and all that is sacred about dignified, well-researched and informative news. But sometimes I can’t help falling in love with a story in the tabloid Daily Sun. This is why:
“A co-driver of a giant 20-wheeler (truck) found a magosha (prostitute) at a truck stop on a cold, bitter night. The two had sex on a blanket underneath the warm truck and fell asleep… the other driver slept in the cab above their heads… In the morning he started the mighty engine – and squashed the still-sleeping magosha under a massive wheel! He drove right over her head! She died at once. Her sex-partner – the co-driver – was injured… The terrible accident took place at a petrol station south of Bloemfontein, the Free State capital. The big truck was traveling between Koffiefontein and Wepener. The guy behind the wheel had no clue his friend the co-driver and the woman who sold sex were still sleeping on the ground below… He had a shower after he awoke and went looking for his partner – with no success. So he started up – and reversed… he drove right over the magosha’s head! Cop superintendent Annelie Wrensch, told Daily Sun: “The driver said it felt to him as if he was driving over a brick, but it made him feel uneasy… and he climbed out the cab to have a look. “He was shocked to find his friend moaning in pain and the woman with her skull squashed!”
This story appeared today on their front page. Add the headline: “They picked the wrong place for sex!”, an inappropriate photograph of the body being loaded into a mortuary van and sprinkle half a dozen exclamation marks, and you have Daily Sun magic. I’ve always said that if I was ever to leave South Africa I would take a Daily Sun poster and frame it for a lifetime of happy memories...