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Well Nkandla was free. I also want free stuff. Erm, I mean, I demand free stuff.
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Give us free airtime, data, SMS: Right2Know
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ld13
Honorary Master
You should not be able to call 10111 from a cellphone afaik and 911/112 should be a fee call.
Never dialed 112 from my phone so wouldn't know, but 10111 works fine, although all they cannot determine off the bat is my location (dialing from a landline shows your location via a database)ld13 said:
HavocXphere
Honorary Master
And I demand a lambo and a (large) big mac meal....paid for by uhm...not me. :erm:
I think you have you currencies mixed up, Wikipedia has the nominal GDP for 2013 as $402.152 billion. The current budget is over R1000bn. Still I agree with your point that the financial burden is great and also the amount of people who are happy to live with just the grant or even to have more children just to obtain more grants.
I demand a free Merc A Class, I have a driver's licence
I demand a drivers licence! I know someone who can drive.
I have a proposal for Right2Know....
How about free jobs? Meaning, I apply, I get the job and then go and sit at home while somebody else does the job for me....
***** sorry... the government are already supplying those, scratch the idea...
How about free jobs? Meaning, I apply, I get the job and then go and sit at home while somebody else does the job for me....
***** sorry... the government are already supplying those, scratch the idea...
ld13
Honorary Master
Did not know that 10111 works from a cellphone as well, last time I called nada happened and they always give us the 0860 10111 number for direct cellphone use. I have called 911/112 from my cellphone and it was definitely a free call. But they put me through to the wrong department or whatnot - screw them - called my armed response guys and they radioed the police and whatnot on my behalf chop chop.
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Saw a horrible accident.
Called them about 400 meters from the accident (no reception where the accident happened) and eventually got through to the ambulance department as we were driving past the hospital. 20 minutes later.
Let me post this, doubt whether half of our current government will get it...
You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom.
What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, and that.....my dear friend, is about the end of any nation.
You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931
You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom.
What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, and that.....my dear friend, is about the end of any nation.
You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931
It's a nice quote, but it's not from 1931.
I checked, because the "Dr." implies authority. But he was a pastor, not a politician or economist.
Nice quote nonetheless.
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koeksGHT
Dealer
I think it is only fair if they agree to work for these companies free of charge. Oh, and obviously get Ericsson, Huawei, ZTE, Cisco and other companies to provide free equipment as well. And let us not forget about the free smartphones from Apple, Samsung, Nokia and others – not fair to not have the same equipment
He must assume he does not have to pay for an intangible service(because he has never seen the price of one of those sector antennas lol)
member2204
Senior Member
Looks like they picked up some bergies from the street to join their cause.
Arthur
Honorary Master
Why only free basic airtime and data? Pathetic, Right2Know - you have such lowly ambitions.
You should march for a basic wage of R1-million a year! Go the whole hog and fight for justice and freedom!
Throw off the shackles of capitalism!
Unite the urban proletariat!
Grow wheat on the rugby fields!
Nationalise everyone!!
Why not, eh?
You should march for a basic wage of R1-million a year! Go the whole hog and fight for justice and freedom!
Throw off the shackles of capitalism!
Unite the urban proletariat!
Grow wheat on the rugby fields!
Nationalise everyone!!
Why not, eh?
dominic
Legal Expert: Telecoms
I am failing to understand the negativity around this campaign and how it comes to abound in a forum which has it roots in pointing out the high costs of telecoms in SA. Sure it is a different language and from a different sector to that generally represented on this forum + they could have got their message through better but the majority of posters are happy to put it into a convenient "we demand" box and be scornful.
Forumites and stories posted here frequently focus on the cost of fixed and mobile broadband. In a country where people who use SMS pay up to 80 cents for something which by most reckoning costs less than 1 cent surely there should be support for anyone trying to do something about a high telecoms cost that affects them (other than bitch from behind a keyboard).