PIVATE PROPERTY: DEVELOPER’S POCESS (OVERSEEING) IN SOUTH AFRICA

DATE: APRIL 2015

BY THE WAY: OBSERVED BY THABISO MONKOE

AT: SOMEWHERE IN JOHANNESBURG

PRIVATE PROPERTY: DEVELOPER’S PROCESSES (OVERSEEING) IN SOUTH AFRICA

DATE: APRIL 2015

BY THE WAY: OBSERVED BY THABISO MONKOE

AT: SOMEWHERE IN JOHANNESBURG

NOT VERY FAR AWAY FROM WHERE I LIVE ON A HUGE PRIVATELY OWNED LAND….

THE PROPERTY DEVELOPER (MOSTLY, A WHITE PERSON) REGULARLY INSPECTS THE PROGRESS OF A STACK OF DEVELOPING PROPERTIES, BASED ON A LAND INHERITED FROM HIS FOREFATHERS. HE DOES NOT WANT TO FALL BEHIND WITH HIS INVESTMENT RETURNS. HE DRIVES A BLACK GERMAN LIMOUSINE, WEARING A BLACK TROUSER WITH A WHITE SHIRT AND LOOKS ALWAYS IMPATIENT. HE IS THE CLASSICAL BOSS TYPE.

ARROGANTLY, HE: APPROACHES THE SUPERVISOR POINTING AT SOME MISTAKES ON THE WALL OF HOUSE AS THEY BOTH FURTHER INSPECT THE FACILITIES AND THE SUPERVISOR FOLLOWS LIKE A NAUGHTY CHILD WHO IS ABOUT TO BE PUNISHED.

IN MOST CASES, THE DEVELOPER ALWAYS FINDS A PROBLEM WITH THE DEVELOPMENTS OF THE PROJECT, AND THE SUPERVISOR TAKES SOME PUNCHES FROM THE DEVELOPER FOR SOME CRACKS HE FINDS IN THE PROCESS.

MEANWHILE THE LOWER RANKS CARE LESS ABOUT IT. THE LOWER RANKS, ARE CHEAP LABOUR SUBCONTRACTED BY THE SUPERVISOR.WORKING IN A HAZARDOUS ENVIRONMENT AND MOST OF THEM ARE FOREIGNERS WHO EARN PEANUTS, WHILE THE PROPERTY THEY ARE BUILDING, IS WORTH MILLIONS OF RANDS, MEANWHILE THY EAT AND SLEEP IN TOILET LIKE FACILITIES TO BE CLOSE TO THEIR PLACE OF EXPLOITATION. THEY EAT AND SLEEP AT WORK.

THEY ARE MERCILESSLY EXPLOITED BECAUSE THEY CAN’T BELONG TO ANY WORKERS FEDERATION. THEY ARE SLAVES OF OUR MODERN TIMES. 

I SEE A LOT OF WRONGS IN THE STORY ABOVE. I THINK AFRICA NEEDS TO WAKE UP AND PROTECT ITS PEOPLE.