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An open letter to the CEO of Bytes South Africa

On Thursday 26 March, your staff made use of the facilities at Bakubung Lodge in the Pilanesberg Game Reserve. As an outsider, this was evidently a team-building exercise which many computer companies are wont to do.

Unfortunately, your staff showed a total disregard for the rest of the guests at the hotel and the time-share units. They left the conference hall in the late afternoon and proceeded to their rooms in the hotel. On their way through the restaurant, some stopped for a drink, but the majority passed straight through, many carrying beers from the conference hall. At their rooms, the drinking evidently started in earnest, judging from the volume of noise made by these people (why did everyone want Horace?).

The noise continued throughout the night - my cottage is at least 200m from the hotel, yet around 2am, some lout was having a conversation with Mandy, which was so loud that I could hear every word he was saying. Mandy's responses were loud enough that I could hear it was a female without being able to understand what she was saying.

The question I have for you is why come to a game reserve if not one person that I saw actually stopped to look at the animals coming in for the night, the elephants drinking at the dam or the hippos in the dam?

Thursday is the last night for the time-share owners, and many like to sit on their verandas and enjoy the sounds of the bush for one last time, before heading back home. Thanks to your staff, this was not possible on 26 March 2015...



Here are some scenes your staff would never have seen.



An elephant feeding on a tree inside the resort

Elephants outside the 100 hotel block

Waterbuck grazing close to the restaurant

An evening view from Bakubung