Shope-Mafole: 'Why I quit'

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I hate you

Have to stay sober till monday. 'snot fair I tell you.

Are you working this weekend or something

 

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Well done to Lyndall. It may horrify most of the readers of this forum, but she was almost certainly the best hope we had for a better minister. She has had to contend with a fast asleep minister, and a deputy minister who just cannot stop breaking his promises, whilst implementing an old policy without any new political direction.

Nevertheless, she has the background and expertise to learn from past mistakes. We're going to need a new, more liberal telecoms law to sort out the legislative mess we have now that the original premise upon which the EC Act was drafted has been undermined by the courts, and she would probably have been the right person to do it.

Before you give all the predictable responses, think about the step she's just taken - choosing not simply to follow the old ANC's increasingly socialist line, and supporting the new (and apparently pro-free-market) ANC wing. It has also very likely lost her her job. On the whole, that's the kind of person I'd like to have as a minister.

I'm very much afraid that we are soon going to find out that it is, in fact, possible to have a worse communications minister than we've had before. Whilst the previous environment has been reasonably good for the existing operators (yes, yes, including Telkom), and less ideal for VANS, imagine one that's actually actively bad for them all, where infrastructure is really nationalised (state-owned international cables, state-owned broadband monopoly = Sentech etc.) We can only hope that Trevor Manuel stays on his current side, or the coffers will truly be raided to waste money on more state infrastructure.

 

[Slooth]

I'm not very optimistic, given government's track record. A promotion is merely the next person's chance of getting their share of kickbacks.

 

[Smooth Criminal]

Before you give all the predictable responses, think about the step she's just taken - choosing not simply to follow the old ANC's increasingly socialist line, and supporting the new (and apparently pro-free-market) ANC wing. It has also very likely lost her her job. On the whole, that's the kind of person I'd like to have as a minister.

Sure you have a point, but the way I see it is that the very government who has been lining her pockets all this time is on its way out. And to add to that, the high court ruling against her and her pal Ivy means that soon they would actually have to start working for their money. Remember that this is the woman who defended high telecoms prices with a tsunami excuse, so it's most definitely nothing to do with Ivy being incompetent.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

*reserves comment until the 15-day appeal deadline have passed*

 

[AirWolf]

Mark Shuttleworth for MoC .

 

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Well done to Lyndall. It may horrify most of the readers of this forum, but she was almost certainly the best hope we had for a better minister. She has had to contend with a fast asleep minister, and a deputy minister who just cannot stop breaking his promises, whilst implementing an old policy without any new political direction.

Nevertheless, she has the background and expertise to learn from past mistakes. We're going to need a new, more liberal telecoms law to sort out the legislative mess we have now that the original premise upon which the EC Act was drafted has been undermined by the courts, and she would probably have been the right person to do it.

Before you give all the predictable responses, think about the step she's just taken - choosing not simply to follow the old ANC's increasingly socialist line, and supporting the new (and apparently pro-free-market) ANC wing. It has also very likely lost her her job. On the whole, that's the kind of person I'd like to have as a minister.

I'm very much afraid that we are soon going to find out that it is, in fact, possible to have a worse communications minister than we've had before. Whilst the previous environment has been reasonably good for the existing operators (yes, yes, including Telkom), and less ideal for VANS, imagine one that's actually actively bad for them all, where infrastructure is really nationalised (state-owned international cables, state-owned broadband monopoly = Sentech etc.) We can only hope that Trevor Manuel stays on his current side, or the coffers will truly be raided to waste money on more state infrastructure.

Sure, we could get an MoC that actually is worse than Poison Ivy, but the ANC's NEC would have to really try very hard to find such a person.

My predictable response is that you don't appear to know very much about Stalin-Mafole and how truly evil Stalin-Mafole really is.

Roy I have no comment on - he broke his colloquia promises - although it's more likely that Stalin-Mafole and Poison Ivy decided to sit on the guy until he gave up.

 

[Tux]

although it's more likely that Stalin-Mafole and Poison Ivy decided to sit on the guy until he gave up.

Dude.. if those two sat on the poor fscker he would have been dead. Have you seen the size of them?

 

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Dude.. if those two sat on the poor fscker he would have been dead. Have you seen the size of them?

Yes I know, it would have taken no more than a few milliseconds for him to capitulate under their massive weights.

 

[Rouxenator]

Communications Director General Lyndall Shope-Mafole has quit the ANC

As with smoking, drinking and doing drugs, quiting is the first step on the road to recovery.

 

[tjunyat]

And why wouldn't she stay until the end of her contract? Or is this just an easy way to get paid out and do nothing for the rest of the contract term? Or are we going to have proof that getting an appointment in the public service is about the party you belong to and not your competency?

She doesn't do anything at the moment, except try stop progress, innovation and screw the consumer. If she did nothing, it would be better.