Warwick Bruce Chapman » fifa2010 http://warwickchapman.com Positively South African Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:14:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 100 Days Gala Dinner a Wasteful Bore http://warwickchapman.com/100-days-gala-dinner-a-wasteful-bore http://warwickchapman.com/100-days-gala-dinner-a-wasteful-bore#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:31:16 +0000 Warwick Bruce Chapman http://warwickchapman.com/?p=592 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?

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