Gauteng officially launches e-Panic Button

[BusinessTech]

Gauteng officially launches e-Panic Button

The Gauteng provincial government is launching a new crime fighting app, with the hope of reducing crime in the nation's most populated province.

 

[bwana]

Because a ne'er-do-well is unlikely to steal your phone?

 

[DapperDanMan]

Expectation:



Reality:

 

[soulie]

who will respond ?

 

[ShaunSA]

Just in time for Pantyaza to click on it as the election results start filtering in

 

[Jan van Riebeeckstad]

who will respond ?

@epah and the drag queens

 

[gregmcc]

The aim is to distribute 100,000 physical buttons to the public.

What?! Physical buttons? So is this different from the smartphone button?

How will these work? A button that connects via the cell network?

 

[ToxicBunny]

What?! Physical buttons? So is this different from the smartphone button?

How will these work? A button that connects via the cell network?

Details details details, they will distribute the buttons.... notice they don't claim they will actually work.

 

[wingnut771]

Who are these 100 000 fortunate people?

 

[neoprema]

@epah and the drag queens

Which will be 900% more effective than SAPS.

 

[Hemi300c]

Like fvck this is going to work.

Empty useless things and promises that never work but cost the tax payer fortunes that go mostly into the anc/cadres pockets.

 

[Cranjus McBasketball]

Now you can get ambulance in 3-5 business days instead of the regular 5-7. That's called progress. The ANC has my vote. That's for sure.

 

[neoprema]

Because a ne'er-do-well is unlikely to steal your phone?

The thieves will press it and claim someone in a SAPS van is chasing them...

 

[Lupus]

who will respond ?

Shhhh don't go asking valid questions...

 

[Clean Green]

How long before someone unplugs a cable or money to do the required hosting runs dry, and we sit with a useless app?

 

[Jam Sandwich]

e-panic
zee-panic
we all panic

 

[Hemi300c]

You do realize that there was a 10111 that used to work perfectly until the anc fvcked that up as well.

 

[Jan van Riebeeckstad]

Now you can get ambulance in 3-5 business days instead of the regular 5-7. That's called progress. The ANC has my vote. That's for sure.

Goddamn, everyone will press the button when they look at you.

 

[LCBXX]

"Don't get a licenced firearm and carry it. Rather get a e-panic button!"

 

[Lupus]

You do realize that there was a 10111 that used to work perfectly until the anc fvcked that up as well.

We also had working hospitals, power stations, schools, traffic lights... This is basically just the ANC being the ANC introducing something they fraked up in the first place.