I queue for a living

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Standing in snaking queues – whether at Home Affairs, collecting a social grant, or a visit to a congested clinic – is a boring and time consuming task many South Africans find themselves doing more often than they like.

After hearing numerous complaints by peers and gogos in his community, 29-year-old Koketso Denny Nkuna from Burgersfort in Limpopo, had the idea to queue for people for a fee.

Nkuna said that he had been unemployed for nearly eight years and had grown despondent about ever finding a job. Burgersfort, which falls under the Sekhukhune District municipality, is home to more than 20 mines, but towns there, including Burgersfort, are among the most impoverished places in the country.

Nkuna, who studied engineering, said he needed a way to support his girlfriend and their baby. “I had a bad experience with job hunting and the recent retrenchment of workers in my area led me to start this business,” he said.

“I identified that queues are a big problem throughout the country. So I decided to give it a try and maybe provide an income for other young South African men,” he said.

Nkuna currently employs five people. On the job they wear bright orange bibs with “I queue 4 You” on either side, along with their contact number. They charge R50 per client, but this fee increases to R100 for every additional hour they spend in line, Nkuna explained.
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More at : https://www.groundup.org.za/article/queuing-living/
 
Great idea. Good on him.

You would also need to sign some papers that allow him to collect documents on your behalf. Not sure I would be so keen on a random person collecting my documents.
 
Lol I'd have totally paid him r50 to queue for me when I was trying to sort out the visas for my family
 
cerebus said:
Lol I'd have totally paid him r50 to queue for me when I was trying to sort out the visas for my family
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That is once off fee.
"but this fee increases to R100 for every additional hour they spend in line "
 
gregmcc said:
Great idea. Good on him.

You would also need to sign some papers that allow him to collect documents on your behalf. Not sure I would be so keen on a random person collecting my documents.
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That's not what he does...

He calls you up when he gets to the front of the queue.
 
cerebus said:
Lol I'd have totally paid him r50 to queue for me when I was trying to sort out the visas for my family
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surface said:
That is once off fee.
"but this fee increases to R100 for every additional hour they spend in line "
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cerebus said:
Still would have been worth it
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Myself, my wife and my 2 kids waited for 8 hours in total at Home Affairs CT earlier this year.

So would have cost me R 3000...definitely not worth it.
 
ToxicBunny said:
Good on him for finding a way to make money and employ others, and his fee seems reasonable to me.
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Definitely. Consider what it costs you in fuel + time to take a day off work to go stand in a **** queue somewhere. His fees are not bad at all.
 
I'm surprised this type of business took this long to get formalised in SA.

Paying people to queue for you at the traffic department/home affairs has been the wave for yonks.
 
MightyQuin said:
Myself, my wife and my 2 kids waited for 8 hours in total at Home Affairs CT earlier this year.

So would have cost me R 3000...definitely not worth it.
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Purply said:
Still worth it
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What an inane, pointless and kunty reply...

How the fuk would YOU know, what something is worth to ME ??

And I was in such a good, sparkly mood up to this moment...having nice, friendly and relaxed conversations with other people in other threads.

And along comes this muppet....jissis.
 
They'll be replaced by robots as soon as the chinese take over
 
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