Telkom is our Berlin Wall - and it will FALL

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It is absolutely amazing how many people are talking about telkom these days.

The people are getting angry - angry with exhorbitant costs.

The Tide is Turning................
 
It is indeed turning. Just take a look at the amount of negative media attention in the past year as compared to the year before. We need to spread the message wider, and tap into the anger of the SA public at large.
 
Crash said:
An election issue?

Wtf does that mean?
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For the ignorant, and all vulgarians, an election issue means something that parties and candidates discuss, declare their position on, and generally facilitate the voter making a choice about.

For instance, a universal income grant was an election issue in the last national elections. Many parties supported the income grant, including the ID, the DP, the ACDP and others. Virtually the only party that did not support the basic income grant was the ANC. Why so many poor, destitute and unemployed people voted for the ONLY party that did not support the basic income grant beats me. Perhaps they are illiterate, as well as being poor and ignorant. Come to think about it, they ARE illiterate... :(

Perhaps it would help if a large number of public-minded people joined the ANC in 2007 and voted out the waBenzi and voted in people who believe in using the assets of South Africa for the benefit of ALL the people of South Africa. Including people who want to use ADSL for all the things that Telkom advertise that you can do with it, but if you do them, they then call you an "abuser" of the network. :confused:

Now, the issue of making telecomms affordable and ubiquitous are important enough that we should make it a matter that is discussed in the context of elections. Even in the municipal elections in March 2006, we should vote for candidates that support alternatives to Telkom.

That would make telecomms an election issue.
 
But do you REALLY think that just telkom can reverse the years of political support for the ANC? What will happen is that the election will go to the ANC, and Telkom will mock everyonoe eklse by launching a huge media campaign, proclaiming how 'great their oh so soopa doopa fast ADSL is'
 
Clarkey said:
But do you REALLY think that just telkom can reverse the years of political support for the ANC? What will happen is that the election will go to the ANC, and Telkom will mock everyonoe eklse by launching a huge media campaign, proclaiming how 'great their oh so soopa doopa fast ADSL is'
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Huh? :confused:

Two different issues. No one expects that making Telkom an election issue will result in the ANC being voted out. The point is to make the ANC compete with the other parties and promise to provide cheaper and better telecommunications for the poor. Such as cheaper call rates, and better access to the Internet and so forth.

Seems that Generation X has some difficulty understanding the concept of an "election issue" :D
 
Does any of the current crop of politicians offer any telecommunication alternatives at all? Maybe we should raise it with the politicians to make it an election issue. For any real chance of success, COSATU must be involved.
 
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