Once upon a time we had bolshie bob who was the most destructive minister in zuma's cabinet. He was a rotten commie who was determined to make us as strong as Mother Russia - even though we've never really been like that. I can't write enough about that useless idiot. Or maybe I can - we have a new moron on the block, Ebie "Slaptjips" Patel. He's living up to his predecessor's name. He is cut from the same cloth - but only the cloth of clothing that he has deemed acceptable.
It's not like me to post DA ramblings on this blog - they are in my opinion the best of a really bad bunch. They will benefit from this lockdown lunacy whilst the others will suffer. Who the hell is going to vote for the anc when they were the ones who told you you couldn't work, couldn't buy cigarettes and stole your food parcels which were designed to feed you. The DA will simply get more votes than the others because more people won't vote at all. According to the DA, Slaptjips (uppercase for now because he's so useless I have to give him something) is now the minister of fashion
The Democratic Alliance (DA) is stunned by the bizarre and extraordinary clothing list that has been gazetted by Trade, Industry and Competition Minister, Ebrahim Patel which seems to have been plucked from Alice in Wonderland.
These new clothing regulations are frankly mad and seem more at place during the 1980’s under the Soviet Union than they do in a democracy like South Africa.
There is simply no justification for the Minister to be determining what clothes people can buy and worse, how they should wear them.
According to the regulations:
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You can buy shirts so long as they are promoted “to be worn under jacket coats and/or knitwear” which is ridiculous and insulting to South Africans’ intelligence;
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You may only buy crop bottom pants so long as they worn with boots and leggings which is just ridiculous;
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And finally, you can only buy “closed toe” shoes which is just laughable.
I'm almost longing for malossie to come back. He had some fashion sense
More seriously - you have to read Bruce Whitfield's article about Slaptjips and has banning of e-commerce because it's unfair on bricks and mortar retailers
Trade & industry minister Ebrahim Patel has sparked understandable fury since famously disallowing “unfettered e-commerce”, arguing that it risked the spread of Covid-19 and would be unfair to those in physical retail that aren’t allowed to trade.
Patel doesn’t want the hassle of dealing with the many complaints he would receive from spaza owners and physical store owners who would demand the same rights. So instead, he imposed a wholesale ban.
And that is unfair. It’s unfair on you and me, now forced to go to increasingly busy shops to buy things that could easily be delivered safely to our homes. It’s unfair to the delivery drivers who could be gainfully employed. It’s unfair to the dispatchers, order takers, manufacturers and suppliers of raw materials who might get some income.
Bruce is wrong on one count, ou Slappie isn't the minister of trade and industry - he's the minister of trade and industry and competition. Like bolshie before him he knows nothing about this and knows less about competition.
Slaptjips is something else and will probably our something else for a long time to come - because Cyril ain't got none
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