Wanatu has resumed operations

Hanno Labuschagne said:
Don't give them too much credit. ;) The City of Cape Town had the exact same issue:
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/art...t-the-brakes-in-cape-town-for-two-day-strike/
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Yep, was a real problem about 18 months ago, and the CoCT and Stellenbosch traffic officers didn’t waste the opportunity to scoop in fines and impound lot fees. But it eventually went the same way, with the courts interdicting the impounding of vehicles while the municipalities sorted out their permit backlog.

I remember for a while uber drivers asking me to sit in the front seat and to please pretend we are friends if pulled over in the roadblocks they set up between Stellenbosch and Cape Town specifically to hammer Ubers and tourist shuttles that were waiting on permit renewals.
 
konfab said:
Funny how the Western Cape doesn't have a backlog for e-hailing permits. Must be due to all the evil apartheid computer systems they had that already had the software on them to process permit applications for Uber drivers. :)
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Could also be because Gauteng has the highest number of vehicles, double that of the little Independent Republic.
 
Longboi said:
If everybody can use Wanatu...why do media call it an "Afrikaans Uber" service? Do they call Bolt a "Bantu Uber" service?

That is just stirring racial tensions. Bloody bunch of cowardly cuckolded keyboard warriors called "Journalists" nowadays...
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Yup. Don't take those twats too seriously. Form your own opinion.
 
Longboi said:
If everybody can use Wanatu...why do media call it an "Afrikaans Uber" service? Do they call Bolt a "Bantu Uber" service?

That is just stirring racial tensions. Bloody bunch of cowardly cuckolded keyboard warriors called "Journalists" nowadays...
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To be fair their marketing is built around only hiring Afrikaans speaking drivers and they held their photo shoot outside the Voortrekker Monument, so they clearly want to be seen as an "Afrikaans Uber".

I mean if a business publicised that it only hired Xhosa speaking drivers, had a photo shoot outside some kraal in the Eastern Cape and called themselves "Wena-tu", they would probably become known as the "Xhosa Uber"
 
vigras rojara said:
To be fair their marketing is built around only hiring Afrikaans speaking drivers and they held their photo shoot outside the Voortrekker Monument, so they clearly want to be seen as an "Afrikaans Uber".

I mean if a business publicised that it only hired Xhosa speaking drivers, had a photo shoot outside some kraal in the Eastern Cape and called themselves "Wena-tu", they would probably become known as the "Xhosa Uber"
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Did they call themselves Afrikaans Uber, or did the media? I don't even know anymore.
 
They should have done whatever Virseker did, whatever it is. I don't recall them getting any kind of backlash.

Or First for Women.

But jissis the journos can cry over Wanatu. :ROFL:
 
Here you go - the site Netbraai describes them as "so betroubaar as jou ouma se pannekoek resep!"

😂😂😂

netbraai.com

WANATU – Die Eerste Afrikaanse E-Vervoerdiens - Netbraai

So betroubaar soos jou Ouma se pannekoek resep! Gerieflikheid het 'n nuwe naam – WANATU! Saam WANATU hoef jy nie tussen gemak en betroubaarheid te kies nie. Klim in een van hul voertuie en reis met ‘n geruste hart - of jy WERKTU, HUISTU of SKOOLTU gaan! Met ruim voertuie en opgeleide...
netbraai.com netbraai.com
 
Bliksis said:
They should have done whatever Virseker did, whatever it is. I don't recall them getting any kind of backlash.

Or First for Women.

But jissis the journos can cry over Wanatu. :ROFL:
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First for women are hypocrites, are they the one who sends a hunk to keep their women clients company while waiting for help instead of sending a fellow woman?
 
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vigras rojara said:
Here you go - the site Netbraai describes them as "so betroubaar as jou ouma se pannekoek resep!"

😂😂😂

netbraai.com

WANATU – Die Eerste Afrikaanse E-Vervoerdiens - Netbraai

So betroubaar soos jou Ouma se pannekoek resep! Gerieflikheid het 'n nuwe naam – WANATU! Saam WANATU hoef jy nie tussen gemak en betroubaarheid te kies nie. Klim in een van hul voertuie en reis met ‘n geruste hart - of jy WERKTU, HUISTU of SKOOLTU gaan! Met ruim voertuie en opgeleide...
netbraai.com netbraai.com
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No one can ever touch that kind of betroubaarness.
 
Zellephant said:
Or Lekkeslaap. Never heard of anyone get upset about them. And their adds are brilliant.
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Isn't Lekkeslaap just all in Afrikaans? Or does it promise that all the places advertised are Afrikaans speaking?

Ek het nooit daarna geloer...
 
TheChamp said:
First for women are hypocrites, are they the one who send a hunk to keep their women clients company while waiting for help instead of sending a fellow woman?
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You ask me as if I'd know LOL.

But that doesn't sound hypocritical at all.
 
vigras rojara said:
Isn't Lekkeslaap just all in Afrikaans? Or does it promise that all the places advertised are Afrikaans speaking?

Ek het nooit daarna geloer...
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As far as I know, it’s just a booking site that is all in Afrikaans, but you can change the language preference to English. I would imagine most properties that list on lekkeslaap would be places run by Afrikaners and they would probably be able to serve you in Afrikaans if you asked, but it’s not exclusively Afrikaans.

Just like Wanatu isn’t exclusively Afrikaans. Anyone is allowed to use Wanatu. The requirement is just for their drivers to be fluent in Afrikaans, so that if the client feels more comfortable to communicate in Afrikaans, they are able to.
 
neoprema said:
I'm glad they back. So I can go back to making sure i ignore them and support Uber! :)
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Well guilting poor Afrikaners into supporting this Wanatu like their existence in South Africa depends on it isn't good either. Just playing on that narrative that the odds are stacked against them due to black racists, that normally does it.
 
Neptuner said:
Well guilting poor Afrikaners into supporting this Wanatu like their existence in South Africa depends on it isn't good either. Just playing on that narrative that the odds are stacked against them due to black racists, that normally does it.
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Poor Afrikaners? Lol
 
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