Watching the ANC at work

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w1z4rd

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So a friend of mine went and did some work at the launch of a new library near Mthatha. The library was paid for by Vodacom and went 500% over budget.

First off, the hand over ceremony starts 2 hours late. Then the church council came and prayed over the building... then the witch doctors came and did their mojo. The ANC heavy hitters arrived (after much delay as they didnt approve of the naming protocol convention.. I think the MEC was whining that her name was not in the right order). Once this was done the ANC was still not happy... as on this copper plaque... was Vodacoms logo. This really upset the ANC and they refused to do anything until someone had put black masking tape over the Vodacom logo.

Once the ANC had stolen all the acclaim for the building of the library they then went on and behaved like spoilt fat kids.

I feel for Vodacom trying to build a library but having to work with the most inbred government officials in the world.

The whole "protocol" thing is very funny, when each speaker has to read out a list of names and then tell the audience that "protocol has being observed".
 
w1z4rd said:
So a friend of mine went and did some work at the launch of a new library near Mthatha. The library was paid for by Vodacom and went 500% over budget.

First off, the hand over ceremony starts 2 hours late. Then the church council came and prayed over the building... then the witch doctors came and did their mojo. The ANC heavy hitters arrived (after much delay as they didnt approve of the naming protocol convention.. I think the MEC was whining that her name was not in the right order). Once this was done the ANC was still not happy... as on this copper plaque... was Vodacoms logo. This really upset the ANC and they refused to do anything until someone had put black masking tape over the Vodacom logo.

Once the ANC had stolen all the acclaim for the building of the library they then went on and behaved like spoilt fat kids.

I feel for Vodacom trying to build a library but having to work with the most inbred government officials in the world.

The whole "protocol" thing is very funny, when each speaker has to read out a list of names and then tell the audience that "protocol has being observed".
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This is quite normal at those types of public events. I clearly worked too much of them :)

Oh and the behaviour by the ruling party is also not uncommon. We work for a client in the mining sector and we managed to establish a reasonably decent relationship between our client and the local municipality. In terms of their CSI programme, our client got a number of community projects off the ground.

The agreement is that the municipality must also contribute something to the project. We battle our asses off to get their contribution out of them, but at the offical launch, the Mayor comes rushing in her black 4x4 to be part of the event. It makes you feel so sorry for the locals, cos most of them do not even own a car and had to walk to the event.
 
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Not uncommon I'm afraid - we had EU projects in the Transkei that were crashed at the last minute by ANC comrades claiming it was them that headed the project, except this time the locals stoned the fat basterds new X5.
T'was a tru youtube moment :)
Locals know what's going on boy, at the moment they are all dependent on these useless fat idiots.
 
Not uncommon at all.
I work at a major international sports event every year in Johannesburg fully sponsored by a big SA company.
For 4 days the mayor has two parties per day. Every black who is who are there constantly. Always in the marque. Drinking just the best.
Arrriving and leaving with Metro police escorts fully with lights and sirens.
Should you ask any of them to name just 1 of the athletes I will bet you a year's salary 98% of these fatcats won't be able to do it.
The best is after every party to watch those fat mamas taking a little "doggy bag" which will feed a white family of 4 for a week.
Disgusting!!!
 
blunomore said:
The agreement is that the municipality must also contribute something to the project. We battle our asses off to get their contribution out of them, but at the offical launch, the Mayor comes rushing in her black 4x4 to be part of the event. It makes you feel so sorry for the locals, cos most of them do not even own a car and had to walk to the event.
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The problem is the people then believe the government did all the work for them even though they are just there to ride on other coat tails...
 
ponder said:
The problem is the people then believe the government did all the work for them even though they are just there to ride on other coat tails...
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I don't know about other places, but I can tell you that in the area in which we work, the people on the ground are much more savvy than that.

They know which politicians mean well and which are out to line their own pockets.
 
blunomore said:
I don't know about other places, but I can tell you that in the area in which we work, the people on the ground are much more savvy than that.

They know which politicians mean well and which are out to line their own pockets.
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I've encounred this as well when I did some work in Esterus Pretoria, but my question is do these people reflect their views of the politicians at the poling booth?
 
w1z4rd said:
So a friend of mine went and did some work at the launch of a new library near Mthatha. The library was paid for by Vodacom and went 500% over budget.

First off, the hand over ceremony starts 2 hours late. Then the church council came and prayed over the building... then the witch doctors came and did their mojo. The ANC heavy hitters arrived (after much delay as they didnt approve of the naming protocol convention.. I think the MEC was whining that her name was not in the right order). Once this was done the ANC was still not happy... as on this copper plaque... was Vodacoms logo. This really upset the ANC and they refused to do anything until someone had put black masking tape over the Vodacom logo.

Once the ANC had stolen all the acclaim for the building of the library they then went on and behaved like spoilt fat kids.

I feel for Vodacom trying to build a library but having to work with the most inbred government officials in the world.

The whole "protocol" thing is very funny, when each speaker has to read out a list of names and then tell the audience that "protocol has being observed".
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Sounds about right... and not at all surprised. Same thing that I saw at Bela Bela (Warmbaths). We were on vacation there for a week while there was a big "ANC Women's empowerment conference" going on. Everything you described was pretty much in evidence. All I can say is "Oink" ... millions of rands of tax payers money is being wasted every day on this kind of crap.
 
blunomore said:
I don't know about other places, but I can tell you that in the area in which we work, the people on the ground are much more savvy than that.

They know which politicians mean well and which are out to line their own pockets.
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And yet they still vote for them... I just find it hard to believe that the majority is not stupid.
 
Getafix said:
The best is after every party to watch those fat mamas taking a little "doggy bag" which will feed a white family of 4 for a week.
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Yep - have personally witnessed this at many events we sponsor.

Worse one was at a Haven for AIDS Orphans... here the fat cats are plundering the food tables for take-aways and the little kids just sit and stare with a faraway look.

We eventually loaded all the kids onto a hired bus and took them to McD's.

The fat cats left them NOTHING.
 
MickeyD said:
Yep - have personally witnessed this at many events we sponsor.

Worse one was at a Haven for AIDS Orphans... here the fat cats are plundering the food tables for take-aways and the little kids just sit and stare with a faraway look.

We eventually loaded all the kids onto a hired bus and took them to McD's.

The fat cats left them NOTHING.
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IMO the ANC fat cats should be caught on camera with their reprehensible behaviour, don't even bother with trying to get it on TV news bcos the producers will not consider it to be sufficiently newsworthy and the extent of such gluttony would consume too much news time, rather upload the footage to somewhere like youtube.com for all to see at their own leisure and tag all related footage such that it can easily be located.
 
ic said:
IMO the ANC fat cats should be caught on camera with their reprehensible behaviour, don't even bother with trying to get it on TV news bcos the producers will not consider it to be sufficiently newsworthy and the extent of such gluttony would consume too much news time, rather upload the footage to somewhere like youtube.com for all to see at their own leisure and tag all related footage such that it can easily be located.
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Great idea, but it will be contrary to "company" policy...
 
MickeyD said:
Great idea, but it will be contrary to "company" policy...
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Anyone who is present and has a cellphone or better camera, can record the footage, including members of the media.

Besides, if the fat cats see that there is a camera aimed in their direction they might decide to either set their bodyguards loose which would be worthy of appearing on TV news, or they might decide to contain their gluttony, or they might not even feel any shame and just continue oinking.

The main thing would be for anyone who is in a position to do so, to get the footage and release it into the wild.

Perhaps there should be webcams aimed in the direction of the grazing tables at such events...
 
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