Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati District Municipal Manager admits to spending R32 351 for each Lenovo desktop computer amid R38 million call centre scandal.
He mentions that they chose the cheapest tender and that the prices quoted were market related. The other tenders were apparently over R40 million so this was a good deal?
He justified the R469.75 for each computer mouse by saying that this price includes insurance and that if the mouse is faulty, the company that was awarded the tender would replace the mouse. A COMPUTER MOUSE.
I'm finished.
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I have received this text of a letter addressed to World Rugby chairman, @BillBeaumont, about Ramaphosa's presence on the Rugby World Cup winners' stage. It's a great letter. If anyone knows who wrote it, please let me know.
Imagine trying your best to do everything the right way and instead of receiving guidance and clear rules, you get told that you will be sued by the SEC unless you pay $30M. Imagine experienced lawyers advise you that it is cheaper to pay the $30M than it is to fight the bogus charges. Imagine you’ve watched another company fight the SEC and pay in excess of $100M. You’re also told that if you fight the SEC it could lead to more layoffs of employees you feel responsible for. Then imagine you learn that the biggest fraudster of all was having private meetings with the Chairman of the SEC, during a time the SEC refused to talk to companies such as yours. Imagine during the trial of that particular fraudster you hear evidence that he donated $10M to the current administration for the purpose of gaining access to the same regulators who threatened to sue your company. 😡 doesn’t cover it.
Here is George Clooney response after Trump accused him of being a "Hollywood elite."
"Here’s the thing: I grew up in Kentucky. I sold insurance door-to-door. I sold ladies’ shoes. I worked at an all-night liquor store. I would buy suits that were too big and too long and cut the bottom of the pants off to make ties so I’d have a tie to go on job interviews. I grew up understanding what it was like to not have health insurance for eight years.
So this idea that I’m somehow the “Hollywood elite” and this guy who takes a shit in a gold toilet is somehow the man of the people is laughable.
People in Hollywood, for the most part, are people from the Midwest who moved to Hollywood to have a career. So this idea of “coastal elites” living in a bubble is ridiculous. Who lives in a bigger bubble?
He lives in a gold tower and has twelve people in his company. He doesn’t run a corporation of hundreds of thousands of people he employs and takes care of. He ran a company of twelve people!
When you direct a film you have seven different unions all wanting different things, you have to find consensus with all of them, and you have to get them moving in the same direction.
He’s never had to do any of that kind of stuff. I just look at it and I laugh when I see him say “Hollywood elite.” Hollywood elite? I don’t have a star on Hollywood Boulevard, Donald Trump has a star on Hollywood Boulevard! Fuck you!"
- George Clooney
actor, philanthropist, humanitarian & activist
Double farm murder, just now in Randfontein. Sounds like a father and son that were killed.
This will be murder number 6 and 7 this week.
We have on average 1 farm murder per week in South Africa. This week the rate increased 7 fold...
🚨COINBASE CEO BRIAN ARMSTRONG CONFIRMED TODAY THAT HE COULD NOT GET A MEETING WITH SEC CHAIR GENSLER DESPITE MULTIPLE ATTEMPTS AND MEETING WITH EVERY OTHER REGULATOR.
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