The battle had nothing to do with President Cyril Ramaphosa who was going to deliver the keynote address later on the day but involved officials competing for space to place their banners on stage.
Within minutes, a male official seemingly from the department came through, and unilaterally enforced a change which saw the Tshwane banner being moved to the extreme left of the stage.The set up sort of made sense, it was first a banner from a national department, then the provincial government and the metro municipality representing local government.Another official, who surely must be in possession of a higher rank, issued an instruction that literally floored the Tshwane banner.
A Tshwane official then went to get two smaller pull up banners which I must say didn't look so clean. The two pull banners from the capital city were used to flank the bigger two banners of DTI and the one from the province. It seemed like a compromise deal.When we thought it was all over, Ford Motors, partners in the Special Economic Zone brought its two smaller banners seemingly throwing the spanner in the works.
Well despite losing the banner battle, Tshwane mayor Stevens Mokgalapa was afforded the honour to welcome the guests while Neale Hill, the Ford CEO delivered a message from the company. Premier David Makhura was scheduled to deliver a message before minister Ebrahim Patel introduces Ramaphosa. The banner war may have taken more than half an hour, it was a funny episode to watch.
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