When you drive towards Krugersdorp form a northern direction on the R28/N14 into town, you’ll see this advertisement board overhanging the road.
From a far it looks quite standard, but lets have a closer look and see what our friends at the ANC are doing.
According to standard municipal bylaws you need permission from the council to advertise your boards on street poles etc. to reduce pollution, and sometime your poster even need stamps on.
Well, the ANC don’t care about that !
They decided … why don’t we just stick our campaign posters on poles and power boxes all over town, much easier to spend money on cardboard posters.
Like their leader, they will probably get away with it anyway.
Can’t they look at the opposition parties and learn from them, their posters are neat and correctly placed according to law.
(look just behind the lamp pole… ha there he is one the power box as well)
There is only one truely South African word for this … eish !
UPDATE: Apparently the council has a system where you pay them a certain amount for each poster you put up, and when your period you’ve paid for is up, you go back take off the posters and recycle etc. and you then receive a large amount back from the council when you have disposed of the poster correctly, iow not leaving it on the lamp poles. This to me is a very good system for handling this, but again we have a problem with governance.