Warwick Bruce Chapman

Monday night’s 100 days gala dinner hosted at the Inkosi Albert Luthuli ICC was poorly attended, boring and ultimately a wasteful event.  My rough estimate is that the event had a 50% attendance; highly embarrassing considering the Acting President Kgalema Mothlante was the main speaker.

On arrival, guests were be met by ushers with no guest lists and instead asked to write their names on a page in exchange for a gold wristband.  Any of you could have come along.  When finding a table in the main hall, a few people had seating cards and the rest of us just sat anywhere.  Thank goodness it was poorly attended!

While criticising anything 2010 is frowned upon by all, one has to ask how an event celebrating our readiness to host the event could be so poorly organised?

I have heard just one too many stories of people getting injured in car accidents, hit and runs etc and not having even just a simple Hospital Plan to cover their hospital bills.  Family and friends them have to scramble to raise hundreds of thousands of Rands to cover the medical bills.

This is just plain irresponsible.  For the price of several drinks a month (perhaps not drinking those reduces your chance of having one of these accidents as well), you can get a basic hospital plan which covers your medical costs in the event you have an accident or land up in hospital for whatever reason.  If you don’t have one, GET ONE!