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Originally Posted by Jerseyt719
First of all, thank you for a real account of what goes on as you are there and not merely speculating.
Am I understanding you correctly? Is money we are sending there simply being wasted? That is what I have read over the years but have never heard of anyone confirming or denying as you just have done.
I am appalled at a time when we have many Americans still without homes, power and jobs due to the economy and natural disasters, that we would blindly send money after a cause that has obviously proven to be futile with the corruption of leaders in foreign lands.
Who votes for this stuff? I am a tax payer and would much rather see my money going to Americans.
Once again this president is throwing money away that we just don't have.
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I am not aware of any American investments here but am aware of Russian and Chinese ones.
What I described is the truth as where I stay we service two 3000MW and 3600MW stations, there are multiple mines and all of them are applying this BEE
jobs for mates program, the comrades cannot run the show so white contractors are employed. They of course need a BEE "partner" owning 51% of the business. These BEE "partners" are the main proponents for the
jobs for mates policy. What happens, his cut is inflated onto the price of tenders and this is passed onto the power stations as an increase in the cost of coal. The power stations also use white contractors with the BEE and then we as consumers bear the cost of this.
You sit with folk being paid for a job they are not qualified to do in the parastatals and now semi-nationalised mines. The gubmint owns the mineral rights and licences to operate a mine so they pretty much have no choice but to fall in line or get their license revoked.
These BEE "partners" are ANC card carrying extortionists and are the new millionaires and billionaires. They partner multiple white run enterprises so it is not like a one -one relationship. Unless you are connected to these "partners" you do not get on the tender list even if you have a legitimate partner that is black and say a contributing one to boot.
BEE is supposed to mean black economic empowerment but is just another scam of corrupt politicians many of whom get kickbacks from these BEE bruthas of theirs. Meanwhile back in the real world of the
previously disadvantaged, their lot in life has gone downhill. Only these connected blacks are milking it.
It pretty much works like your protection rackets in the US when the mafia was/is running the show.
Oh and the white contractor has to meet a quota of blacks he employs. He cannot simply choose to use young white males leaving school.
My son whom I personally trained is working as a semi skilled electrician for one of these contractors. He works for $500 per month and starts at 7 and gets off at 5. He cannot get an apprenticeship or get in to simply go an write his trade test. Then he can earn what he is worth, $1,700 to 2,300 pm as a junior electrician. He has all the practical of over 7 years and yet is discriminated simply because he could not finish school (learning disability) and he is white. Being unemployed myself due to our FUBAR economy, folk do not look at someone my age. I used to be a training officer at the power station before I moved to New Works.
Now my son goes to the mine and replaces one fluorescent lamp and his boss charges $200. My son's hourly rate is $2.90. You kinda get the picture. He is being paid the minimum wage which is exactly what the black quota folk will get. That same lamp I would replace for say $30 for a private consumer. From that I would also pay my helper so I would get say $20.
It has all become join the system or get no work.
In the old days, we had a white dudes with three labourers driving in 10 ton trucks patrolling for potholes and fixing them. On that truck was tar, a furnace to heat it up, gravel, cutting machines, cones, compactor and a pothole took about 1 hour to repair. This was not a high paying job and has gone the way of the dodo bird.Now it goes out on tender. An inspektah will drive out in his beamer or merc, look at the potholes marked in white paint he has asked a contractor to tender on and then 5 months later once the potholes have increased in size and numbers, the job gets done. Well as they do not generally pay the contractors, folk are really not tendering anymore.
Another silly example I saw was a crew of black women with weed eaters trimming grass on the curbs of a road between my town and another one. This was in winter when the grass was already 4' high and dried out. Now in the old days, there were crews that went out and burned the grass. The crew had leather fire beaters to control the fire, they could do this entire 30km stretch in a week or so. This crew I saw were busy on a section of about 3-5km and they took 5 days. Well also in the old days, they would send tractors out and cut this grass short while still green and the burning was a mere stop gap to prevent bush fires and damage to farmers crops in the harvest season. Some farmers cut this grass themselves these days and burn it too.
These black folk back then were well paid and had leave and had medical insurance and and and. Now uneducated black folk no longer have these opportunities for menial labour. Consequently, petty crime rates have sky rocketed.
Simply put, a lot of stuff that happened under the radar, folk were not overtly aware of this happening unless you happened to pass a crew or a truck in your travels. Curbing maintenance is non existent, that is simply importing dolerite soil and grading and compacting that which was washed away. In some places, the drop is 12" or more. You dare not travel at night here anymore unless you really know the road very well.
There really is no valid reason why these services could not simply be continued and maintained, it is not rocket science.
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