r u siriaas. Load of tripe in that article. A 1st yr student could pick apart those articles in seconds.
Just a few:
1.
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.
2.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!)
1) Entilini were legally allowed to close the road whenever they wished as per the original contract negotiated by the ANC. If Carlisle had not renegotiated the contract, the Province would simply have been powerless to stop it.
2) If you think any of what you have written - essentially the expanded version of what Carlisle wrote - entails "luxury," I hate to think what offices you've worked in in the past. Every single thing you've written there is bog standard operations-related infrastructure, apart from the terraces, which aren't uncommon themselves. I'll start taking you seriously and protesting with you when they include the likes of a staff gym, spa and sports facilities. Those are what you call luxury facilities.
Furthermore, I'm not sure whether you were suggesting that Entilini intend on sub-letting parts of the office block to third parties, but if that's what you're getting at then all I can do is laugh at your severe lack of understanding of the commercial property sector.
3) "They" did not excavate anything. Robin Carlisle has clearly said he was in opposition to the building of Chappies in the first place. Entilini and the ANC-lead WC government are the sole reason that the quarry was originally excavated. The fact that Carlisle has now reduced the number of toll plazas from two to one, and decided to have the office block located in the ugly ANC/Entilini legacy that is the quarry, is commendable, if anything.
4) I'm not sure what you're attempting to argue, because what you said was clearly outlined in the article by Carlisle's own admission.
5) This process has been ongoing for some time, and it is only now thanks to the Sunday Times' usual sensationalism that people have woken up and decided to start objecting to it. It is not Carlisle's fault that information that has been in the public domain has only now created a buzz. I would assume that he gave the go-ahead for construction to commence because he not only has contractual obligations, but expects that Parliament would have no logical reason to object to the 25% of the land owned by SAN Parks being extradited. Even SAN Parks themselves are in support of giving up the land.
6) What you "believe" is of no concern. What actually happened, however, is.
7) Think about this logically for a second. If, all these years, they've been using containers as offices when they could just as easily have rented out "luxury" office space in Hout Bay, then why would Entilini - who obviously aren't remotely poor - have chosen to remain in the containers? Because, once again logically, it is far easier to locate one's staff working on the toll road ON the actual toll road. Do you have any idea what equipment they need to store necessary for the maintenance of the unstable roadway? That's forgetting the fact that on top of that, the new toll plaza will be located another whole kilometre towards Noordhoek than the original plaza was. Come on...use your head. Do you think those responsible for the smooth running of the Kruger Park base their offices and equipment a couple of kilometres outside of it? The idea is a complete joke.
That was easy to pick apart, and one needn't even be a first year in order to do so. Your inability to actually fight fact with fact and your liberal use of opinion is quite amusing.
I am up in arms if this is true and I am a white DA supporter, although not a member.
