{"id":49585,"date":"2013-10-25T00:59:22","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T22:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=49585"},"modified":"2013-10-25T00:59:22","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T22:59:22","slug":"merchants-on-long-sweet-service-and-city-of-cape-town-transport-department-sour-service-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/merchants-on-long-sweet-service-and-city-of-cape-town-transport-department-sour-service-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Merchants on Long Sweet Service and City of Cape Town Transport department Sour Service Awards!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Merchants<\/a>The Sweet Service Award<\/strong> goes to Merchants on Long and its owner Hanneli Rupert, \u00a0for her invitation to attend the classy cocktail party for her new summer range of Okapi handbags and purses, bespoke accessories made from the skins of blesbok, ostrich and crocodile, with springbok horn being used too. \u00a0She only uses locals to manufacture the bags for her, which are largely exported. \u00a0She shared that she will open a shop in Nigeria soon. \u00a0The canap\u00e9s crafted by Dish Food & Social were a cut above the standard canap\u00e9 fare, and were beautifully presented.<\/p>\n

\"City<\/a>The Sour Service Award<\/strong> goes to City of Cape Town Transport Mayoral Committee member Brett Herron for his arrogance on Twitter, in (mostly) not answering Tweets directed at him. \u00a0He has just launched a radio advertising campaign for a self-created ‘Transport Month’, teaching Kfm<\/strong> listeners how to cross a road at a zebra crossing, spending valuable ratepayers’ money on this insignificant campaign, which smacks of DA political posturing. \u00a0It would be far better spent on fixing the multitude of potholes on the roads in Cape Town and Somerset West caused by the torrents of rain in winter. \u00a0Councillor Herron requested feedback on potholes in one’s area via Twitter, but does not respond to Tweets when they are reported to him via Twitter, requesting that the information be sent to a City sms number, with the motivation that one is then able to follow up on the fixing of the potholes. \u00a0Surely this is the role of the City and not of its residents!<\/p>\n

The\u00a0WhaleTales Sweet & Sour Service Awards<\/strong>\u00a0are presented every Friday on the WhaleTales blog.\u00a0 Nominations for the Sweet and Sour Service Awards can be sent to Chris von Ulmenstein at\u00a0\u00a0whalecot@iafrica.com<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 Past winners of the Sweet and Sour Service Awards can be read on the Friday posts of this blog, and in the\u00a0WhaleTales\u00a0<\/strong>newsletters on the\u00a0www.whalecottage.com<\/a>\u00a0website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Sweet Service Award goes to Merchants on Long and its owner Hanneli Rupert, \u00a0for her invitation to attend the classy cocktail party for her new summer range of Okapi handbags and purses, bespoke accessories made from the skins of blesbok, ostrich and crocodile, with springbok horn being used too. \u00a0She only uses locals to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[3,124,6924,1918,248,21],"tags":[18326,32366,32378,257,1267,17791,17490,7997,8004,21880,32398,1587,13550,1771,21879],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t