Went to OR Tambo Int'l yesterday to pick up some friends who had decided to spend their hard earned euros on a holiday in SA. With them being all prim and proper Bavarians and all, I was expecting to get a 3'rd degree lecture on how third world we are and how mistaken they were to ever consider SA for a holiday. Well, surprise, surprise...
They were absolutely dumbstruck by the newly "revamped" OR Tambo airport. Apparently they were expecting something like Nairobi, and then thought they had mistakingly landed back at Frankfurt Int'l airport once disembarking the plane. They even commented that, once completed, OR Tambo would even outclass the mighty Frankfurt Int'l airport... Well blow me over with a feather, maybe there is still hope for us in 2010...
Another remark was about the "good" condition of the cars on our roads. Apparently on a recent tour through Spain and Portugal, they observed that one in three local cars there were held together merely by a hope and a prayer...
Well thank goodness for them they did not have to declare how mach of those Euros they had brought with them otherwise you guys would have been followed home and robbed.
Apparently SARS had to recently scrap the use of the arrival forms where one had to declare the amount of currency one was bringing into the country due to the fact that syndicates were working with SARS employees at OR Tambo International. The syndicate members would be tipped off as to who had mega bucks with them and the poor unsuspecting visitors to our country were followed and robbed of these funds...
Yea, there was a big expose on Carte Blanche recently. Apparently SAPS and airport employees were also involved. There is a follow up report on Carte Blanche tonite that delves deeper into this, as well as the mega corruption within SAA.