Corruption Epidemic: How it's impacting businesses, the economy, and job creation. Corruption has been a longstanding issue in South Africa, with various reports indicating that it has been a significant problem for decades. The country has a history of corruption, where the government and its officials used their positions of power to enrich themselves at the expense of the public.
In recent years, corruption has been a major concern in South Africa, with numerous high-profile cases of corruption involving government officials, state-owned enterprises, and private companies. This has had a significant impact on businesses, the economy, jobs, and investment in the country. We invite our readers to join Our S.A. Crisis Jokes & Solutions Campaigns to Save The Nation from Blackouts! South Africans we urge you to do something creative and to add value to our new fractured democratic struggle against corruption, crime and poor service delivery and Eskom's load shedding.
Corruption in South Africa, Nepotism, Public Services, Private Sector Slowly We Seem to Decay!
Corruption also affects the economy by diverting resources away from productive uses and into the pockets of corrupt officials and businessmen. This can lead to a lack of investment in important areas such as infrastructure, education, and healthcare, which can have a negative impact on economic growth and job creation.
In addition to this, corruption also affects the investment climate in South Africa. Businesses and investors are often deterred from investing in the country due to the perception of corruption and lack of transparency in government processes.
This can lead to a lack of job creation, which can have a detrimental impact on the economy and the livelihoods of citizens.
In summary, corruption in South Africa has had a significant impact on businesses, the economy, jobs and investment. It has led to a lack of transparency in government processes, which has deterred businesses and investors from investing in the country, and also has led to the diversion of resources away from productive uses and into the pockets of corrupt officials and businessmen. Now few of us i.e., community members who are unemployed and struggling to pay our debts, have come together to find a solution by doing something about it.
We could have joined Dudula Operations, or other civic groups, but as you know South Africans are not cowards like other nations in Africa who thrive on the weakness of local South African victims of political chaos like here in Mzantsi. We sit down and address issues affecting our lives, from education to employment, business to politics, organizing to protesting against our own government. We put up a fight to stand for our own rights. In this case instead of going to the streets to protest, we use blogging, podcasting and writing to vent our frustrations. Eskom load shedding is one of them.
So! we've agreed to start a campaign to write humour and joke about our frustration. It is within our democratic rights to do so. As a result, we have started inviting people around Mzantsi to join us in this space. To share, comment and subscribe to our campaigns before next year's election of 2024. We started the "S.A. Crisis Jokes and Solution Campaign". It is a petty Trevor Noah is not here to join us. His schedule overseas is very tight, but we'll wait for him when he comes to vote next year.
A. Background Overview About -S.A. Crisis Jokes & Solutions Campaigns
These jokes are not meant to harm anyone nor are they meant to be derogative to South Africa’s ruling party nor its employees. But rather exploits the creative side of our human suffering to alleviate the nations, pain and frustration as a humorous form of positive protest. The intension is to test if we are still resilient since June 16, 1976. We know our people have courage and strength to see this Eskom crisis through. So, for encouragement to sustain our sanity we thought a little sense of humor during hard times can go a long way. As the saying goes “Laughter Is the Best Medicine”.
Beyond this scope of humor is the strategy to raise funds for our local community special projects.
- To identify and to unleash comedy talent that is latent to a majority of people in S.A. starting with jokes on this blog as an icebreaker.
- This is an attempt to create an atmosphere of relief via future partner community radio stations willing to support our initiative.
- This campaign of “Sponsor A Joke – With A Service Delivery Solutions”, is a challenge to all South Africans to learn to turn adversity or pain into an adventurous journey, business opportunity or exciting special community event.
- A psychological resourceful process of digging deep into our souls to find strength and sense of perspective in life.
- While doing so pick up the pieces from this traumatic experience of crime, load shedding, job loses, hijacking, poor services and many other challenges to start all over again, to the glorious rainbow nation.
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Powering South Africa’s Future, One Joke at A Time
The High Cost of Corruption: How South Africa's businesses and investors are paying the price for silence. This is why it is necessary to make jokes about it. Although this is a very serious matter, what's important is that people must reflect and remember who voted the ANC in power in the first place. "Corruption has affected the entire country from Procurement to Job Losses: How Corruption is Harming South Africa's Black families in particular the poor rural communities". The state of the nation will not recover anytime soon, because Eskom load shedding began as early as 2009. Who was in power then?
However, for health purposes and for the country to brace itself from Eskom load shedding heart attacks and high costs of incurring medical expense and surgical hospitalization bills. Note "LAUGHTER IS THE BEST MEDICINE". Why not read these jokes for yourself and share with friends or create your own. South Africa's corruption crisis is deterring investment, economic growth and many other issues related to development and political stability.
Here Is a Compilation of Our Subscribers Jokes from The LIBRARY OF OUR JOKES ASIDE VAULT CLUB!
(S.A. Crisis Jokes & Solutions Campaigns - Submit at Least 5 Jokes P/Person to Become a Member and Participate in Our Comedy Roadshows)
1. "Why did the ANC cross the road? To get to the other side of loadshedding cable theft transformer."
2. "Why did Eskom utility go bankrupt in the first place? Because they were too busy begging municipalities from communities who were promised by Mandela regime that everything will be Free if we vote for the ANC."
3. "Why do police officers fall asleep on their job? Because the power was out, and they couldn't charge their snoring cellphones to wake them up."
4. "Why do squatter camp dwellers have to eat by candlelight? Because it is a romantic gesture by Eskom to run its affairs on nepotism and this didn't reach their area."
5. "Why did the potholes on the road get this big? Because municipalities were too busy digging up the streets to steal electricity cables."
6. "Why do power outages last so long? Because Eskom tenderpreneur contractors are very busy lining their pockets with secondhand coal-stones from Witbank to fix them."
7. "Why did the service delivery truck never arrive? Because it got stuck in a pothole on the way and the driver had to use stolen cables to jump start it."
8. "Why are the streetlights always off? Because cable thieves keep stealing the bulbs to power their shacks during load shedding outages."
9. "Why do residents of squatter camps have to take cold showers? Because Eskom and local authorities do not think they are important enough to supply power at a discount."
10. "Why are hospitals running on generator power? Because thieves at Eskom & City Power were too busy embezzling funds to keep their lights on. That's why parliamentarians were dark glasses to support their sentiments.
11. "Why do residents in squatter camps have to cook on open fires? Because municipality councilors are too busy fighting for coalition political leadership positions to find a solution or care about their previous electoral votes."
12. "Why are South African cities always in darkness? Because municipalities are too busy planning stage 4 of stealing electricity to sell it in the black market of Zim to pay for their 4x4's and luxury homes in Cape Town."
14. "Why is South Africa plagued by power outages? Because everyone who works in government and municipality are close families brought to you by nepotism to maintain the infrastructure."
15. "Why are residents of squatter camps always left in the cold? Because the municipality never paid Eskom any cent from collecting bills. They're too busy discussing who will be the new mayor to think of service delivery and to care for their constituency."
16. "Why is Eskom raising the rates? Because they need to pay for all the potholes, they dug up while searching for cable thieves, who have lost interest in hijacking to join the lucrative mining resource of Gwede's Zama Zamas."
17. "Why are residents always in the dark? Because some councilors have every excuse not to go to Damelin College at night to attend night school because it's a culture of comrades to pass one and let all go. It's called "Collective Responsibility", it was inherited and adopted from DET's Angie.
18. "Why do businesses have to rely on generators? Because private companies are being bullied by ANC and are afraid if they complain, they will be sent back to countries of their origin or be driven to the sea by Nongqawuse.
19. "Why does Eskom power utility have to declare bankruptcy? Because they're contractors are individual cadres with entitled communistic attitudes of inadequate capitalist principles attempting to operate a successful enterprise within a free-market capitalist system.
20. "Why did the ANC install dimmer switches in parliament? Because they needed to match the level of transparency in their electricity policies."
We are running a "Jokes Aside Load Shedding Competition Episode #1 " enter your joke in the comment section below at the bottom. You stand a chance to win a Prize Money when your joke is accepted.
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