WALMART, the United States-based global retail giant that recently bought a 51percent stake in Massmart - the proprietors of Makro, Game, Dion Wired and Builders Warehouse - has hardly settled in but already it is trying to upstage Mzansi's ruling party.
And, by the looks of things, it also wants to take on Ain't Seen Nothing Yet politically, and is possibly even toying with the broader idea of eventually recolonising this country.
In a major media campaign that started on Sunday, the company boasts that it is going to open new stores, create more than 15000 new jobs - jobs, not job opportunities, mind you - and procure food items and fast-moving consumer goods worth R60billion mainly from local suppliers within the next five years.
A significant part of this strategy speaks directly to the New Growth Path, which the government has been struggling to lift off the ground since it was mooted a couple of years ago.
"This (merger) is very big news, not just for our two companies, but for the people of South Africa," says Walmart.
But you only have to look at the company's slogan - used to support the media campaign - to fully understand that Walmart also has political ambitions, believe it or not, to take on Ain't Seen Nothing Yet in its own game.
As you know, Ain't Seen Nothing Yet has for the past few years been telling voters, and unconvincingly so, that "working together we can do more".
Walmart has gone a step further by stating: "Working together so you can live better."
The two slogans look strikingly similar, but which one, do you think, sounds better than the other?
Silent machine gun
Guluva was keenly following proceedings on the first day of the fifth central committee meeting of Cosatu and he must admit he was not pleased with what he saw.
It's only two years since he took office, but our president already seems to have aged 10 years, such is the stress and pressures that go with the top job in the land.
Despite having just recently returned from a three-day break, our beloved M-shower-lozi looked tired, bored and disinterested as he was painstakingly going through his speech.
It was evident that he was just going through the paces. All he wanted to do was to go home.
The fire, passion and enthusiasm are now all gone.
His machine gun is no longer the lethal piece of military hardware it was pre-Polokwane.
The weapon has been firing blanks of late, and now it has fallen silent.
As he cut a pitiful figure in that Gallagher Estate conference room, M-shower-lozi, who will turn 70 on April 12 next year, did not look like a person who had the energy, will and stamina to slog it out for another eight years, especially with Juju relentlessly pursuing him.
These are possibly the first signs that show that M-shower-lozi is not going to make himself available to serve a second term come Ain't Seen Nothing Yet's Mangaung elective conference next year.
Watch this space.
Email Guluva on thatha.guluva@gmail.com
Walmart takes on the ANC
WALMART, the United States-based global retail giant that recently bought a 51percent stake in Massmart - the proprietors of Makro, Game, Dion Wired and Builders Warehouse - has hardly settled in but already it is trying to upstage Mzansi's ruling party.
And, by the looks of things, it also wants to take on Ain't Seen Nothing Yet politically, and is possibly even toying with the broader idea of eventually recolonising this country.
In a major media campaign that started on Sunday, the company boasts that it is going to open new stores, create more than 15000 new jobs - jobs, not job opportunities, mind you - and procure food items and fast-moving consumer goods worth R60billion mainly from local suppliers within the next five years.
A significant part of this strategy speaks directly to the New Growth Path, which the government has been struggling to lift off the ground since it was mooted a couple of years ago.
"This (merger) is very big news, not just for our two companies, but for the people of South Africa," says Walmart.
But you only have to look at the company's slogan - used to support the media campaign - to fully understand that Walmart also has political ambitions, believe it or not, to take on Ain't Seen Nothing Yet in its own game.
As you know, Ain't Seen Nothing Yet has for the past few years been telling voters, and unconvincingly so, that "working together we can do more".
Walmart has gone a step further by stating: "Working together so you can live better."
The two slogans look strikingly similar, but which one, do you think, sounds better than the other?
Silent machine gun
Guluva was keenly following proceedings on the first day of the fifth central committee meeting of Cosatu and he must admit he was not pleased with what he saw.
It's only two years since he took office, but our president already seems to have aged 10 years, such is the stress and pressures that go with the top job in the land.
Despite having just recently returned from a three-day break, our beloved M-shower-lozi looked tired, bored and disinterested as he was painstakingly going through his speech.
It was evident that he was just going through the paces. All he wanted to do was to go home.
The fire, passion and enthusiasm are now all gone.
His machine gun is no longer the lethal piece of military hardware it was pre-Polokwane.
The weapon has been firing blanks of late, and now it has fallen silent.
As he cut a pitiful figure in that Gallagher Estate conference room, M-shower-lozi, who will turn 70 on April 12 next year, did not look like a person who had the energy, will and stamina to slog it out for another eight years, especially with Juju relentlessly pursuing him.
These are possibly the first signs that show that M-shower-lozi is not going to make himself available to serve a second term come Ain't Seen Nothing Yet's Mangaung elective conference next year.
Watch this space.
Email Guluva on thatha.guluva@gmail.com
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