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This was a registered event with the city They put out a message saying that
of Tshwane, we had compliance whoever is in their group is allowed to
certificates, we had a SAPS risk sponsor and be part of the USC but a lot
categorisation level of low , we almost of them pulled out, Die Joint pulled out,
had some SAPS members there to come Tiny Town pulled out and together they
check and enjoy the day with us, but pulled out about R10 000 of
that didn't work out. It was held at sponsorship. My fight with them is not
Swartkops lapa in Centurion over, they committed to sponsorship,
which made me commit to other things.
This event was by the people for the In writing on my whatsapp, they said they
people, we sorry we had to charge, will take care of certain things, based on
there was a lot of overhead, like their commitment we then arranged
medics , generators, the venue, the other things like the videography that is
videography, the list goes on and on. close to R30 000.
The cash prize was R5000 and a whole The event cost me R20 000 out of my
different type of stuff from sponsors. I own pocket. The repercussions of the
would have really liked to get the negative attitude from Grow One Africa
sponsors to the 15- R20 000 mark for had quite a negative impact on our show
the first prize but unfortunately that did to which they don’t actually understand
not happen. Grow One Africa put a big the full negative impact, that also
stunt in this, they did not realize that resulted in Onder die boom and Chieba
pulling out their sponsorship, they pulled pulling out. They had a negative impact,
out about R10 000 sponsorship, which quite a lot of vendors paid and did not
lead to a huge dent in our social media show up, Contestants paid and did not
followers, we could see the google stats show up and quite a lot of spectators
on Google analytics, Facebook analytics paid and did not show up. Because of the
and Instagram analytics all going down. negative connotation that Grow one
They said they couldn't associate Africa attached to our event, a lot of
themselves with us because we do not people did not arrive.
portray responsible smoking. That
internally put a huge dent in our
following and on the day they did not
realize how big they affected us in a
negative way.
