Matatiele municipality councillors spent R1 million on a Durban hotel meeting

[ToxicBunny]

In 2023
How do they still do this and either assume it'll go unnoticed or do not care?
Why are they not afraid of the populace they're fleecing?

They just don't care.. They think they're untouchable, and largely they are.

 

[TooFastTim]

ANC doing well here and 4 hours away they getting dragged over hot coals?
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Look at how many places can be re-named.

 

[RonSwanson]

At the hotel I worked at they mostly sleep until the buffet opens. Never seen government workers move so fast.

Gou by die bak, maar lui by die vak.

I guess that after stuffing themselves at the buffet, they get all sleepy and go back to bed?

 

[Harmonic]

That's a massive fall from grace for the AIC.

If you think this little tip of the ice berg is massive, I've got a bridge connecting lutuli house with wakanda to sell you...

 

[Earthtree]

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is that Windows 12?

 

[TheChamp]

If you think this little tip of the ice berg is massive, I've got a bridge connecting lutuli house with wakanda to sell you...

That sounds lovely.

 

[Harmonic]

That sounds lovely.

The bridge is lined with KFC as well. PM me for best offer

 

[gotaway]

Welcome to Wakanda!

The new utopia? A trough!

 

[neoprema]

Sheesh the price of KFC has gone up madly!

 

[neoprema]

54 councillors, 108 rooms,

Its a government meeting, can't have the prostitutes waiting in the same room.

 

[TrueSeeker]

Tiny municipality blows R1 million on Durban hotel meeting

Councillors from the Matatiele municipality in the Eastern Cape travelled to Umhlanga Rocks north of Durban for their annual planning meeting, at a cost of more than R1-million.

This year’s meeting, at the Garden Court Hotel, took six days, from 5 February to 10 February. A total of 108 rooms were booked, at R1,500 a day, not including catering. The 54 councillors and some of their staff could each claim travelling costs, up to R3,000.

To put it in perspective. Matatiele municipality has about 200k residents. That's about the population of Uitenhage.

54 councillors.
Each with staff even!

They really don't understand the point of government. The ANC is a business. A business based on spending our taxes on salaries.

 

[RedViking]

The ANC is a business

It's a criminal organisation. Not the same as a business.

 

[Rumple4skin]

At the hotel I worked at they mostly sleep until the buffet opens. Never seen government workers move so fast.

And then those pigs stack those plates to look like skyscrapers.

The costs as they are actually aren’t exuberant, you can’t expect things to operate to free.

The real question is whether any value was gained from the entire meeting.

Simple answer - of course not.

Not the point , just completely unnecessary. These costs should be for tourists not councillors looking for a paid holiday. Hope they swam in the sea while they were there.

Doubt any of them can swim. Too bad we didn’t hear about any of them drowning while they were there.

 

[W@P]

At the hotel I worked at they mostly sleep until the buffet opens. Never seen government workers move so fast.

I used to frequent the Mmabatho Palms hotel in Mafikeng every second month for years—work situation. I can count on one hand over all those years that there was not some or other conference or get-together by a government institution or municipality or similar.

Flashy cars with slick tires in the parking. The hotel fully booked. So many fat fscks sitting by the pool drinking and eating. And man, the breakfast and dinner buffets. Those were something to behold. You cannot believe how they swarm around those buffet counters. It's unreal. As if they hadn't eaten in 3 months.

They will sit and stuff their faces like no tomorrow, and then wait and wait until the food has settled in their fat fscking bellies, then go dish up for round number 2.

I use to go have breakfast as early as possible, as soon as the breakfast buffet opens. Get in, and GTFO before the pigs wake up from their 5kg meal the previous night.

Oh, and of course, the conference rooms/facilities that were booked were half-empty most of the time. No one in sight. Until lunchtime and dinnertime, people were everywhere.

The hotel itself had no other reason to exist anymore except to cater to this kind of bookings.

Then it burnt down. Not sure if they rebuilt the place. Does not make financial sense for peermont to carry on operations if not for the government bookings. Rooms were showing their age and bathrooms as well. Always fully booked but never upgraded the rooms.

 

[JuliusSeizure]

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Well, non-democracy did not work well in SA either as the electorate kept electing a pariah regime.

 

[The_Librarian]

Smells like a family trip, but somebody else is paying.

 

[Pak Fa Fui]

Dont they get discounted rates when so many rooms are booked, its Garden Court so its barely a 3 star stay

 

[My_King]

 

[TheChamp]

Dont they get discounted rates when so many rooms are booked, its Garden Court so its barely a 3 star stay

You don't look for discounts when the whole point is to spend money, it looks like they felt they deserve this, so the money was going to be spent.

 

[Sideshow Bob]

It seems HCI owns 47% of Tsogo/Southern sun (Garden court) and HCI's major shareholder is the South African Clothing and Textile Workers Union

Our Directors – HCI

Who is the ANC guy ?