You cannot make this stuff up!

[Trevor]

We are struggling with poor service delivery (clean water and a reliable power supply are top of the crap list), not to mention that our government is proving itself to be more corrupt and greedy than the apartheid government and now our Department of Tourism wants to spend nearly one billion South African rand to be advertised by the British soccer team Tottenham Hotspur! 

https://www.news24.com/sport/soccer/englishpremiership/sa-tourism-forging-ahead-with-spurs-sponsorship-conditionally-as-criticism-mounts-20230202

 

[Trevor]

As of yesterday, three members of the SA Tourism Board have resigned because of the backlash from the public.

[ER]

Any chance during retirement you'd want to move far out into the rural parts of the country? Maybe the northeast? I hear they're hiring for all kinds of things at the Sabi Sands resort. Beautiful place.