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Vodacom: No lack of supporters
ADSL South Africa (Broadband South Africa), 31 May
2009
Loftus Versfeld
has come alive on Saturday night as a crowd in excess of 50 000 cheered for their respective teams. The
Vodacom Bulls and the Chiefs clashed in the Super 14 final which ended 61 to 17 in favor of the Vodacom
Bulls.
A valuable
lesson…
Saturday evening’s clash between the
Vodacom Bulls and Chiefs was highly entertaining but what struck ADSL South Africa (Broadband South Africa) the
most was the sheer scale of the support the Vodacom Bulls enjoy.
This directed our thoughts to Cosatu’s (The Congress of South
African Trade Unions) attempt to boycott Vodacom’s products and services earlier this month. The attempted boycott
was in retribution to the North
Gauteng High Court’s decision to rule in favour of Vodacom’s listing on the JSE (Johannesburg Stock Exchange),
which cleared the way for Telkom’s sale of 15% of its stake in Vodacom to the UK’s Vodafone. Needless to say, a
boycott that failed horribly, one that never got off the ground to say the least.
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