Formerly the Department of Housing,
their job is to provide houses for the people of South
Africa, and we all know about that waiting list.
In response to a parliamentary question
posed by the DA, the department said that the R60m included
52 performances of a face-to-face housing consumer campaign
and a housing awards ceremony.
R23.4m was spent on one particular campaign
that was intended to ‘continue to profile the
housing programmes, developments, achievements and challenges
to beneficiaries and the general public.’
One awards ceremony cost the department R1.8m to organise
and host, R600 000 for accommodation and transport,
and another R930 000 to advertise.
‘The costs also include all advertising
conceptualisation, production and procurement of media
space for public broadcast or publication." the
department said in its answer to the DA’s question.
Did they perhaps conceptualise,
produce and procure advertising space for Tokyo’s
one-night-stand in a shack to experience firsthand the
plight of the people?
What is a performance of a face-to-face
housing consumer campaign?
Is it like a band and a dance group
that knocks on people’s doors to perform face-to-face
their rendition of ‘Tokyo’s in the House’?
And finally, what on earth is a housing
awards ceremony?
Is it like an awards evening where they
present their colleagues and each other with awards
for achievements as far as possible removed from building
houses for the people?
Somebody please help me make sense of
this.
Please.
I feel so inadequate for failing to comprehend it all.
Kader Khan
Editor
info@yummie.co.za
