EFFORTPOST Saffer Drama Back in 2016, when South African Firefighter volunteers to Canada, striked and toitoi'd after row about not being paid satisfactorily, causing National Embarrassment

Greetings Dramatards!

So right now in Burgerland and Canada there is a very large series of forest fires ongoing, and reddit is plastered with posts related to it. In /r/southafrica I saw this post today and my terminal Loooongpost autism went into turbo overdrive as memorylane activated.

The dipshits in the /r/southafrica thread has a really REALLY rosy view back to when RSA sent in volunteer firefighters to Canada way back in 2016, when another ecological catastrophe was ongoing in Canada during their dry season.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Fort_McMurray_wildfire

For those who don't remember, the 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire was an above normal catastrophic fire ongoing in Canada at the time. At the time, in 2016, it wasn't the deadliest natural disaster, but it was the costliest. 88 000 Canadians were displaced, and about 2400 homes were scorched. The fire basically wiped out approximately 590,000 hectares of vegetation, and did about $9.9 billion in infrastructure damages overall. It was a pretty apocalyptic affair.

The situation became so extreme that the Governer of the province of Alberta declared a national state of emergency and pleaded to the Canadian Department of National Defense for urgent help.

https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/fort-mcmurray-wildfire-pushed-back-even-as-temperatures-climb

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-government-responds-fort-mcmurray-wildfires-1.3565723

The Canadians went pretty hardcore at this disaster and sent in hardcore equipment, namely C-130 Hercules fricking Water-Bomb airplanes to fricking dive bomb the fires with lake waters! Like holy hells, for my 3rd world brain at the time seeing military aircraft unclease hundreds of swimming pools worth of rain over burning trees on TV was a truly astonishing sight! Yet even with these man made marvels, the scope and size of this fire was spiraling out of control and the largest fire evaquation in the province of Alberta's history was ordered.

Just like with the Turkish earthquake this year back in February, a bunch of allied nations offered rescue forces and firefighters to aid the Beleaguered Leaf firefighting efforts. Among them was fricking South Africa, and whooooo boi, was it gonna be a shitshow.

https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2016-05-26-south-african-firefighters-prep-for-canada-in-their-biggest-international-deployment-yet/

Now because Canada has so many firefighters and experience with forest fires, they often train personnel from other nations, especially africa and other 3rd world nations with modern techniques and equipment. When the 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire broke out, RSA had a "Working on Fire programme" in cooperation with Canada busy earlier that year. And what better way to reciprocate the Canadian kindness than by sending these very Safrican newly trainees.

It's important to note that by the time the South AFrican volunteer firefighters arrived in Canada, the worst of the dangers were already past, but many many residual fires still remained burning in Alberta and would require enormous manpower to finally completely extinguish.

The group of 301 RSA firefighters flew from Joburb, Gauteng, and was sent off by the minister of the Department of Environmental Affairs. In his own words it was " the biggest South African deployment ever [outside the army] to assist a foreign country". It was a really big deal for the ANC showmanship. “We are immensely proud of the fact that the international firefighting community has recognised the skills and expertise within Working on Fire to provide essential integrated fire management services at an international level.” Uhhhhhhh.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/300-south-african-firefighters-are-trained-and-headed-to-fort-mcmurray/article30197182/

The firefighters were trained during the month of April that year at a boot camp, in order how to learn to use special hoses instead of the leather-padded wooden sticks known as "firebeaters" they typically use in their home country due to a lack of water.

Also it's important to note that the only reason the ANC even considered sending their newly trained firefighters to Canada in June was because they had warmer relations with Canada, which had leadership that publically condemned Apartheid and the ANC wanted to capitalize on that renown, not because of any international empathy for the plight of their fellow man currently suffering, the same way the greeks sent all of their rescue workers to Turkey without hesitation despite the sour relations between the two countries.

Notice the following from the article; it's important to take notice of this, because this specific fricking article was written just before the dramastorm to follow:

THE DRAMA - SEFRICANS TOITOI

It's important to understand from the Canadian's viewpoint that they were doing the South Africans a favour. They were giving these previous Bootcamp trainees real world experience, in a live environment.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/notley-south-african-firefighters-wages/article30363833/

Yeah that's right straggots! After all that fanfare from Gauteng, and all of that ceremony, in less that a week, our fighfighters were already fricking striking! It was the subject of many jokes back in RSA when the news broke that saffer instinct just couldn't hold out even a fricking before striking in a foreign country.

The disagreement came when the Saffers realized they being paid only 15 Canadian dollars a day, instead of 15 Canadian dollars an hour like the locals - something which they had agreed to before they flew from Gauteng

All the boomer whites from RSA wanted to go full ostrich and put their heads in the sand: this was a national embarrasment!

The worst part was libtard Alberta premier at the time, Rachel Notley actually acquiesce to their bullshit, and went on a spiel about how the SA firefighters had to be paid the Canadian minimum wage.

Like can you guys imagine this:

RSA offers their firefighters as volunteers as recompense for their having been trained 3 months earlier, Canadian officials believed that they were doing RSA a fovour in the 1st place, by giving them live experience. Canada sends a plane to pick up these volunteers. Canada deems to pay these volunteers anyway, according to what they would make back home in their home country (what is often a standard for international disaster cooperation) as a sign of friendship. Canada pays for their stay, their food and acomodation. Our "volunteers" immediately isn't happy, and spits in the face of their canadian peers just 5 fricking days after they arrive in Leafland. While the province of Alberta is a fricking post war zone, with dead forestry, dead scorched animals, and 88 000 people displaced in this nightmare event, smoke still scarring the skies, these fools start toitoi'ing on the fricking ashes!

Can you imagine the sheer shamelessness!

It's important to note that even the 15C$ per day was much more than they would have earned back in RSA when converted, and Canada only even agreed to pay them out of good faith.

https://mg.co.za/article/2016-06-24-00-working-on-fire-burns-its-bridges/

The company facilitating cooperation between RSA and Canadian Firefighting forces were the ones getting lambasted by the liberal media too ironically enough, despite being RSA based, and not capable of paying in US/canadian levels anyways.

https://globalnews.ca/news/2764776/south-african-company-says-firefighters-who-helped-in-fort-mcmurray-paid-well/

https://www.news24.com/News24/canada-tells-singing-sa-firefighters-to-go-home-20160611

Soon after the Canadian authorities had enough of the SA fighter's bullshit, paid them for their two weeks, and said basically: "Your services are no longer required."

Lots of sneedfest at RSA about the underpayment, non of the frickers who sent the mission of 301 firefighters mentioned that it was supposed to 1) voluntary and 2) supposed to have been a diplomatic gesture between RSA and Canada! Wat de fok

https://www.groundup.org.za/article/sa-firefighters-canada-here-are-facts/

Here is an article which had sorted out the BS and drama and mistruths after the fact written about the confusion, nothing not already said, but the comments has some lovely sneed which was indicative of the drama back in SA

Translation: dear editor frick your facts! Also, the "Lower level of worldliness??" Lmoa, soft biggotry, low expectations ect ect.

more libs cryposting

The only sensible comment putting this dramastorm into perspective.

Chud gives his take

LOOK WHAT I FOUND - a post on /r/worldnews from 2016

https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/4nl9kt/canada_tells_south_african_firefighters_to_leave/

Top comment is weirdly sensible and would probably be shitcanned in 2023 reddit.

But some immediate below

The terms of the contract is racist! Canada should sue the RSA company! Reeeeeeeeeeeeee

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Some Canadian Slavery

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Others notice the upheaval and drama is nonsense from the South Africans

"Is it normal for a country to pay wages to people coming in to help from another country? Wouldn't their home country cover their wages?" No fricking Shit. Canada was doing these morons a favor

Which makes us come full circle to the /r/southafrican post of today with all it's copefest glory!

https://www.foxnews.com/world/united-states-south-africa-send-300-firefighters-canada-wildfires

I was shocked that RSA sent firefighters again this year, or that Leafland accepted

racist

That's all I got