{"id":9418,"date":"2010-06-11T10:47:12","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T08:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=9418"},"modified":"2010-06-21T22:51:03","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T20:51:03","slug":"south-africans-sweet-and-skynews-sour-service-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/south-africans-sweet-and-skynews-sour-service-award\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africans Sweet and SkyNews Sour Service Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Sweet Service Award <\/strong>goes to all (OK, almost all) South Africans who have embraced the World Cup starting today, for decorating their cars, homes and businesses, for being helpful, welcoming and friendly\u00a0to tourists, for tolerating lack of parking, traffic congestion and parking tickets\u00a0in the city, and in the Green Point and De Waterkant areas in Cape Town, and for becoming soccer fans, in short, doing our country proud.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The Sour Service Award<\/strong> goes to SkyNews <\/strong>and its Johannesburg-based reporter Emma Hurd, who keeps finding yet another negative story to tell about South Africa, especially its townships, in the run up to the World Cup.\u00a0 Ironically, S A Tourism sponsored SkyNews<\/strong> sport broadcasts for almost a year!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The negative reporting\u00a0has created a growing backlash against the TV station amongst South Africans, and on Twitter in particular, leading to a less than flattering @emmaturd Twitter account having been created about her!\u00a0<\/p>\n

The WhaleTales 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 <\/span>info@whalecottage.com<\/span><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Past winners of the Sweet and Sour Service Awards can be read on the Friday posts of this blog, and in the WhaleTales <\/span><\/strong>newsletters on the <\/span>www.whalecottage.com<\/span><\/a> website.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Sweet Service Award goes to all (OK, almost all) South Africans who have embraced the World Cup starting today, for decorating their cars, homes and businesses, for being helpful, welcoming and friendly\u00a0to tourists, for tolerating lack of parking, traffic congestion and parking tickets\u00a0in the city, and in the Green Point and De Waterkant areas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[3,124,22,21,11],"tags":[5147,32366,32378,474,5145,666,100,346,32389,5144,5146,1721,1587,32373,1771,531],"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