The Day of Reckoning for Telkom approaches fast

Posted on October 29th, 2009 by Richard Catto 533 views

For more than a decade now, South African consumers and business people, and indeed the whole of South Africa have been effectively sucked dry by the parasite we know as Telkom. And now, finally, it seems they are going to have to pay for their abuse of South Africa.

If there is one company which has most held back the economic development of South Africa, it is Telkom. It is the single most hated organisation in South Africa. Telkom has ruined individuals and businesses. It has held South Africa back from developing the cheap telecommunications infrastructure that our country desperately needs to compete in the Internet powered global market. It has contributed to the flight of hugely successful South African business people who realised that they could never realise their dreams in a country so crippled by Telkom. People like Mark Shuttleworth, Vinny Lingham could not soar to the heights they have achieved in a country where Internet bandwidth is non-existent, where it is sold at hugely inflated prices and where the development of additional infrastructure is hamstrung.

Telkom is the dog that has financially depleted the bank accounts of myriads of consumers and businesses, artificially driving up prices for all sorts of things across the board. Telkom has done its level best to impoverish South Africans at every level of society. They are an absolutely despicable evil empire and they must now kneel before the sword that lops off their head.

It is not good enough for Telkom to pay the proposed R3-4 billion fine. All its directors must be imprisoned for the rest of their natural lives without the possibility of parole. We must sink these bastards into the deepest darkest black hole and deny them the ability to ever see a single green leaf or the naked sky again. We must strip from them all their assets, including their pension funds. We must impose upon them and their families the poverty they imposed on the rest of us. Every single asset of Telkom must be sold and the money raised given back to every Telkom account holder for the last 10 years pro-rata. Every person owing Telkom a cent, must be forgiven in full their debt.

It is not possible for us to completely undo the harm that Telkom has done to South Africa over the last decade, but we must try. We must purge this country of their evil, and we must make the severest example of them, lest any other South African monopoly is tempted to follow in their footsteps.

FURTHER READING:
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Telkom faces record fine for malpractices
New threat of billions in fines for Telkom

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