News that the municipality is to blow R25 000 on an end-of-year party has raised the hackles of the chattering classes, who have had an Annus Horribilis.
One wonders what you get for twenty-five grand. Not curry and rice, I guess. Johnnie Walker? One would jolly well hope so…
Plastic cutlery? Nah. Local entertainment? Probably – but perhaps some of the councillors could make a speech or two and that would suffice. We wonder if the bodyguards will also be invited to the bash? Or would they have to loiter around King Edward Street at (sorry, IN) awe of the glitter and glam?
We wonder what the fashions would be? High heels? Perhaps not – even the municipality okes are scared of those potholes that are evolving and starting to grow ears.
Endumeni is probably one of the wealthiest towns in South Africa. I mean, which other municipality could afford to pay two municipal managers, earning over R1-million a year each? The one chap does not even have an office at the moment…
Wonder if he will get invited to the party?
The real funny part is of course that no one – not even the chatting classes – will do anything about this. There will be grumbles and groans in the clubs and out on the streets, but once that’s done it will back to the grindstone, so who cares?
What I would suggest is that every ratepayer attends the party. Not that we have anything to celebrate – except the end of a kak year.
Must be because it ends with the suffix 13. We have had computers (three at the last count) stolen from the municipality, petrol bombs, riots, foreign nationals’ shops destroyed, graffiti, tyre-slashing, attorneys assaulted, managers kicked out and more, with not a single arrest.
Must be lekker around here. The SABC can find you to pay your TV licence, but we do not know who calmly walks out of the Kremlin with a computer.
There are few redeeming features about 2013. Even the road upgrade was a calamity. Dyslexic road markers made business bad for most people by not allowing access to entrances or taking away customer parking.
There is growing crime, and despite murmurs of promises there are no signs of any security cameras, which just may help to curb the epidemic.
The mayoral car was stolen, found and then crashed. Tough on Audi.
For some it was a good year. They got their old jobs back and all was well.
The Oval was turned into a cesspool of rubbish with little thought put into cleaning up the messes incurred there.
The 16 Days of Activism thingy is a complete waste of time. How about 360 days of care for the environment? If we don’t the world is going to vomit over us. In the immortal words of UB40: “The Earth Dies Screaming”. So too does Endumeni.