Heard this tale from my meat supplier!
A Taxi leaving Oranjemund yesterday had a flat tyre at the Sendelingsdrift gate. In order to change the flat, the driver had to remove luggage from the Vehicle. In the process a Namdeb security official noticed a roll of Copper wire, those rolls on the reel...... The name of Namdeb had been burned into the roll, but the individual concerned had tried to remove the name. Anyhow..... when the security official started to question the taxi driver, he merely pointed out one of his passengers.... who denied that the roll belonged to him..... suddenly the roll of copper that belonged to Namdeb now had no owner...... needless to say that the official locked down the gate and nobody could move until the matter was sorted out..... ( I do not know what the result was)
ANyhow...... here are my questions.........
1) Why does'nt Security inspect vehicles leaving the area!In all my years here, nobody at security has ever inspected my vehicle. The okies like to sit in their cubicle ...
2) What's gonna happen when Proclamation occurs!
3) What would have happened if the taxi never had a puncture....
Just my 2 cents!
Mmm the outcome will be interesting ... we currently got a spate of theft of the old cast iron gutter runoffs ,, some enterprising folk are simply at night ripping the stuff up out of the ground ... now I beg the question ,,, scrap metal dealers cannot say they do not know what it is that is being brought in .... my two cents , if i was the Mayor knowing that the replacement of this stuff comes out of the kitty ,, scour the halls of power and find a few underutilised folk ( sure theres still a number lurking in the dsark corners and send them to all known metal dealer with pictures of the said item and others including stormwater covers manhole covers etc ,, do inspection and warn them " we will be back " and if we find anything resembling this stuff you will be shut down .... and hell man use common sense ,, there is a huge vagrant community that also scavenge scrap metal that would sell their best friend down the chute for a reward that would allow them a few days of blissfull eating of slap chips and drinking cheap wine .... so put up posters with reward offered for information .... that would lead one to the perpetrators and possibly the illegal scrap dealers as well ... straightforward thinking that the powers cannot seem to do ... well thats my experience ... catmusic