South African Mentality

This should give you an idea of what we have to deal with in this country. We have won the 2010 World Cup bid and the whole country got excited. However, since we got the bid, it has been an uphill struggle with the finance, building and ticket sales. Now the small minded idiots who work on the stadium has decided to stop working. We are already months behind schedule, and now they decide to sown tools.

My issues with this are multi-fold. (SURPRISE)

First, they are striking over pay. The entire world is in a recession. People are loosing jobs daily, and they still want more money. The thing is that these unskilled people are demanding a 15% raise in salary. At the moment the countries economy grows at a rate of -2%, but they demand a 15% increase. That kind of math, can only make sense to a monkey.

Secondly, they are downing tools to these world cup stadiums, when the success and the profitability of the event already hangs in the balance. I have never been a big supporter of the world cup, but we have it now, and we must "haal uit en wys" (show what we can do). This is no time to be putting the event into even more jeopardy.

Thirdly, this "entitlement" they have and the stupidity of the unions. A union leader said on radio a few days ago, that they will strike until FIFA fines the organisers, and then the money that should have been paid to the workers as salary, can be paid over to FIFA in fines. HOW RIDICULOUS!!!

Monkeys, monkeys everywhere.