Gary Rathbone

African sports media consultant, producer, musician, idealist, entrepreneur...

[Martin Williams @Marttwit]

#HandsOffSandtonDrive!

Why spend money renaming Sandton Drive after a foreign hijacker, who still espouses violence, when there’s no money to fix problems in the area?

It doesn’t make sense.

[Gary Rathbone @thegaryrathbone]

@CityPowerJhb What about Illovo?

[Gary Rathbone @thegaryrathbone]

#CityPowerUpdates what amazes me, when I see how much power distruption is going on across the City, is that these guys have the cheek to proudly announce '100 days without loadshedding'. Who the hell are they kidding? So, they changed the name, now it doesn't exist anymore?

[Gary Rathbone @thegaryrathbone]

@CityPowerJhb Ok...you've noted something an hour ago that we've been telling you about for the past 3 day? Well done, you!

[Gary Rathbone @thegaryrathbone]

@CityPowerJhb You keep urging me to limit my power usage, as an excuse why Illovo is down. Yet I've used zero power since Monday 4pm. How much more limited can I go? Stop talking BS and start spending our money on fixing the City grid, instead of feeding our tax money to the leadership.

[Gary Rathbone @thegaryrathbone]

@CityPowerJhb But what about Illovo? We are now heading for 3 days without power and not one acknowledgement of the issue, or a response of any sort. Not only are we in the dark without power, but without communications as well!

[Gary Rathbone @thegaryrathbone]

@CityPowerJhb This is utter BS. How do you have the nerve to say something is fixed when it isn't? Please read what people are saying here and sort this problem out! 24 hours and no power...SMH!

[Penny Foley @PennyFo74306043]

@CityPowerJhb Power still off in Illovo. Mobi site is not accepting the logging of a new fault

[Just2getanswers @just2getan87045]

@CityPowerJhb Please attend to Illovo, we are nearing 24 hours soon. and it still no one has been dispatched?

[Vanya @VPintoBasto]

@CityPowerJhb There is still no power in Illovo! We are now approaching 24hrs. CPWEB4340832, CPWEB4340833, CPWEB4340834

[Gary Rathbone @thegaryrathbone]

@CityPowerJhb No, it isn't. And people are struggling to log a complaint for something that was already logged when it went down yesterday. This is not a new issue. Why do you keep saying 'power has been restored' when everyone says it isn't? Please acknowledge there is a problem and fix it!!!

[Gary Rathbone @thegaryrathbone]

@CityPowerJhb @rezekam Please!

[Gary Rathbone @thegaryrathbone]

@CityPowerJhb Illovo is not on this list. Why is Illovo still down?

[Gary Rathbone @thegaryrathbone]

@CityPowerJhb Illovo is not on this list. Why is Illovo still down since last night?

[Gary Rathbone @thegaryrathbone]

@MolewaSewela @CityPowerJhb Has this been logged yet? I don't see anything about this in the various X, ESP or WhatsApp threads.

[Elad Simchayoff @Elad_Si]

LISTEN. TO. EVERY. SINGLE. WORD.

[Gary Rathbone @thegaryrathbone]

@theGOOdublin I have one spare ticket for tonight's Calexico show in Dublin at The Helix, available at face value. Please message me if interested.

[Gary Rathbone @thegaryrathbone]

@casadecalexico I have 1 extra ticket for tonight's show in Dublin, available at face value. Anyone interested please message me.

[Michael Markovitz @mmarkovitz]

Two questions for @News24:

Is there a self-censoring editorial call never to mention SABC's complaint to @CompComSA when reporting on sports rights negotiations with @MultiChoiceGRP?

Why is it portrayed as odd that sponsors make it possible for SABC to broadcast big events?

[Gary Rathbone @thegaryrathbone]

@BlaQVoid @News24 @Sport24news You can't sublicense rights from other broadcasters who don't have the rights available for your territory. NHK, etc, only have the rights for their regions, not for SA.