Byrd
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Why should an incompetant company still continue to be paid and be on the job? You can't do the job you are fired. Thats the way the world works. The sooner Africa learns that, the sooner it will start progressing.
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Why should an incompetant company still continue to be paid and be on the job? You can't do the job you are fired. Thats the way the world works. The sooner Africa learns that, the sooner it will start progressing.
+1 It's all about the 'image'
Lefatshe Technology is a big ANC bed partner. We've partnered with them and have been screwed over royally in the past, actually the project screwed both us and Bitou over whilst giving the biggest slice of the pie to incompetent organisation. The DA would never work with them, as a result.
news24
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Some people actually think that the DA is immune to corruption and should forever be given the benefit of the doubt. The DA gave lefatshe 90 days, in 90 days they couldn't put out the tender and get a few quotations?
The DA is becoming ever so slightly like the ANC.
This looks like quite a clear case of corruption but I shall await for the outcome.
And this is just after the circus of the Chapman's Peak debacle. The DA will still win the WC in 2014, but I think with a heavily reduced majority. Many DA voters will simply stay away.
I highly suggest you read this article before blaming the DA for the Chapman's Peak debacle.
And if all it takes some DA supporters to "simple stay away" from the polls is a darn road they clearly have no understanding about, then they deserve to live in an ANC-run mess, because if they think a toll road is going to be the height of their problems in an ANC-run Western Cape, then they've got something else coming to them...
Sbudah
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All that this does is expose DiData as an ally of the DA and may be excluded from future tenders in ANC lead municipalities and departments.
The DA is becoming ever so slightly like the ANC.
This looks like quite a clear case of corruption but I shall await for the outcome.
And this is just after the circus of the Chapman's Peak debacle
This corruption has been predicted. I'm surprised its happening so soon with the DA. But then again maybe i should'nt be.
r u siriaas. Load of tripe in that article. A 1st yr student could pick apart those articles in seconds.
Just a few:
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Why is that. Nothing has changed. If he found Intellini 'cheating' and closing the road for political/monetary gain they should immediately be removed with cause. This is a clear admission that this is the situation.
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Wrong again. They are building an office for : Plaza Managers Office, HR Manager office, Internal Auditor office, Secretary's office, Staff Room, Control Room, Cash Room, Archive/Records, Technicians Workshop, Civil Forman's Office, Store Room, Airconditioning Room, Workshop, Managers Office, PA to managers office, General Managers office, Store Room, Meeting Room, Kitchen, Service Room, and various Terraces. LUXURY IT DEFINITELY IS! wtf do they need terraces or an office for the frikken secretary? How many managers do they really need for a toll booth?
No, this is designed to be an asset instead of a functional structure. They will sublet this out for a packet.
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Complete lie. They excavated a pristine piece of land to create a quarry in SANPARK land to get the stone for construction work. Now they say the quarry is ugly and has no fynbos left, so we must build in it. Anyone can see the faulty argument here.
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Carlisle himself has said the free pass is not in the agreement and can be scrapped at any time. Recall what the Entillini boss said about charging ambulances? You really think he's going to give out a free pass?!
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Why didn't they get that done first instead of signing an illegal contract. Now how much money is going to be spent on finding out if it can even be completed. He also says they will start building the part nearest the road, so we could end up with 1/2 an office. Not a thinking person is our MEC.
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I believe they did, but at the same time were told it would have to take an act of parliament to do it, so presumably they were waiting for that.
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Meaningless arguments. It would obviously be far cheaper to site the office in Hout Bay. It doesn't need to be on site.
Fortunately he doesn't repeat his other really daft reasoning like the land is 0.0x% of available SANPARK land (nonsense stats101).
or the one about the offices will be better for the workers than the containers on site at the moment. (oh comon!)
nakedpeanut
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All you people harping on about 90 days being enough you really have no clue how long it can take to gather the resources to actually asses a systems requirements, project plans, financial, and your own resource availability. Now multiply that by 3 companies all asking questions and investigating the system. Especially a system that's around 10mil and full of holes! Now you want people to fix what's broken. That is a huge undertaking if there are significant time pressures.
We (including me) are obviously all speculating as we do not have the fine details of this project. Now I agree it does look fishy on the part of the DA, but DiData at least has a solid reputation unlike Lefatshe Technology.
Just a simple Google search on their name has these two articles on the first page:
http://mybroadband.co.za/news/busin...executive-busted-by-anti-corruption-unit.html
http://amabhungane.co.za/article/2011-06-17-expensive-it-solution-under-fire
DiData reveals nice articles about their double digit growth and this article:
Now I've got allot more faith in DiData making this system work than Lefatshe Technology.
We (including me) are obviously all speculating as we do not have the fine details of this project. Now I agree it does look fishy on the part of the DA, but DiData at least has a solid reputation unlike Lefatshe Technology.
Just a simple Google search on their name has these two articles on the first page:
http://mybroadband.co.za/news/busin...executive-busted-by-anti-corruption-unit.html
http://amabhungane.co.za/article/2011-06-17-expensive-it-solution-under-fire
DiData reveals nice articles about their double digit growth and this article:
Now I've got allot more faith in DiData making this system work than Lefatshe Technology.
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Well, I see racism will never die in South Africa. It will always be black vs white. And I guess the white people will support the white person, whether wrong or right. And the blacks will support the black person, whether wrong or right... It comes down to the fact that a person is black or white first, then South African second. I guess that's why South Africans can never be a great people of a great nation. Cause we always tearing each other apart.
So my point is this. Why don't we pick up arms, and simply just kill each other? Cause we already hate each other. And I think it will solve the hatred.
Just a thought
So my point is this. Why don't we pick up arms, and simply just kill each other? Cause we already hate each other. And I think it will solve the hatred.
Just a thought
marine1
Honorary Master
Sorry but that is utter crap
I am up in arms if this is true and I am a white DA supporter, although not a member.I support what is right !! Simple as that. I am against what is wrong and that is the corrupt ANC and the people that support them.
If you take that as a white / black issue then that is something you have to deal with.
As for taking up arms and killing each other?
I am all for it. Too many oxygen thieves on this rock anyway
MickeyD
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Just a thought? Stick to the topic and spew your hatred elsewhere; it's not welcome here.
MickeyD
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Like all other sensationalist newspaper articles initiated via a pissed off politician, I'd rather wait to see some facts before commenting.
The Bitou municipality has seen some very bitter political struggles over the last decade with plenty of dirty tricks and mudslinging. In most (not all) cases the DA emerged smelling a bit rosier than the ANC.
The Bitou municipality has seen some very bitter political struggles over the last decade with plenty of dirty tricks and mudslinging. In most (not all) cases the DA emerged smelling a bit rosier than the ANC.
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Vrotappel
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Sometimes one needs to do the right thing as opposed to doing things right.
The ANC has left a diabolical mess and the DA needed to fix it.
I just wish we can get the DA into the city of Joburg as the ANC is currently destroying it.
The ANC has left a diabolical mess and the DA needed to fix it.
I just wish we can get the DA into the city of Joburg as the ANC is currently destroying it.
marine1
Honorary Master
Can you imagine the mess they would find and the massive corruption that would be uncovered?
I like this sentiment. It's not like the DA hid their decision - they applied for special dispensation for a well known IT company (and a resident of Plett - who has a vested, non-financial, interest in seeing the municipality perform well).
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Committing "suicide" could be another thought to consider!
marine1
Honorary Master
As usual the truth will come out and I bet the ANC will look like the racist morons they are
Look, I don't doubt the DA circumvented the tender process, but from my perspective it was an extraordinary measure to quickly address and unfortunate problem inherited from the ANC. Further to this the DA was quite transparent in requesting a “deviation from the tender process” to allow them to do so, a completely legal course of action. As has been pointed out, a tender process would have taken months, possibly even a year, to sort out and in the mean time the municipality would have either been left with the incompetent incumbent or no support whatsoever. Hopefully this is merely a stopgap measure to address an existing issue and once the problem is resolved proper process will be followed.