So Jacob Zuma is our new president and by all accounts he delivered a fine speech, which even Helen Zille is happy about. Let’s see now if he can stick to the promises/suggestions. Even as he was inaugurated, though he couldn’t get away from the shower, [story here].
In light of the recent adverts that have featured high ranking ANC dudes, such as the Julius Puppet adverts from Nandos [here], and the Zuma shower Gel Adverts by laughitoff [here], I thought I’d bring out an old one.
Pronto.
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“Julius” has sold for lots and lots of change.
After over 700 bids, the controversial dummy star of the Nando’s advertisements has been bought for R100 000 by Johannesburg businessman Ryan Lotter.
Lotter – managing director of Colorpress Pty Limited – said he was considering giving his new puppet acquisition to Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille. So much for a recession. Some of us still have R100 000 to fork out on a worthless dummy. Well maybe not worthless. The PR for Nandos has been immense, the comic relief for Joe Public has been great and the R100 000 goes to charity.
Gobsmacked
Malema declined to comment.
Until he has decided what to actually do with the thing, he said “Julius” would be his new BEE silent partner and take pride of place at his company’s bar.
“Our company does a lot for charity and we believe in assisting worthy causes… and we think the Nando’s ads are fantastic,” he said.
The money generated from the “Julius” auction will go to the Self-Help Development Organisation, which empowers young men by enabling them to finish matric and learn mechanics, electrical engineering and woodwork skills. The charity’s Jimmy Mahlangu said it had opened in 1996 with the specific aim of assisting young men who had ended up on the street by “stopping them from doing crime”.
Mahlangu was overwhelmed by the news of “Juilius’s” R100 000 price tag.
“That’s great… it will really help,” he said.
Nando’s national marketing manager Sylvester Chauke said Nandos would be sad to see the puppet go.
“We have become very attached to him… We will probably have some kind of farewell for him before we let him go,” he said.
So the Julius Malema puppet is for sale. Nandos are really milking this one, haha.
Wouldn’t it be cool if it came with a years worth of Nandos, kinda like a meal deal.
I’d buy that.
Here’s what you get.
One Puppet For Sale, used only twice.
Nandos had this to say:
“We didn’t want him to spend the rest of his life being an ornament,” Nando’s national marketing manager Sylvester Chauke told The Star newspaper.
“We do expect him to fetch a good price — he has become a celebrity overnight. And his whole wardrobe comes out of the Woolworths children’s section. He’s completely on trend,” added Chauke.
The puppet is being sold through The Star newspaper in aid of charity. Good on you Nandos. Jesse Duarte what you gotta say to THAT?
Here it is finally, the reworked version of the Nandos Julis Malema advert. Of course we all know who it is about. Love the way they blurred out the Nandos logo too…
I must admit I’m a huge Nandos fan. I’m not as huge a fan of their prices, but in terms of the food on offer I could have a Nandos next door and it would rock. I also genarally like their advertising, and this last weeks Julius advert is no exception.
While I was looking around for a few more Nandos adverts, I came across a few others that I thought I would share. Enjoy!
This next one is full of iodols wannabees and never was’s. I think the SA version of idols has become a joke. Maybe this years Idols can do a nandos ad when theyre done, they’ll probably get more airplay.
I thought this one was a bit lame, until I saw the running commentary below the thing, so I’ve added the link in the the comments on youtube. Thanks guys you made my day!
Nando’s hasn’t chickened out. Barely an hour after saying they would pull an advert featuring a puppet that looks like Julius Melama, they have announced that a follow up advert will appear shortly.
I don’t know what all the fuss is about, Malema should be flattered with the faint praise and appreciate that this kind of media actually increases the spotlight on him, isn’t that what he wants?
Earlier, Julias and pals had threatened militant action on Nandos outlets, yet had this to say about the ad campaign.
They further had this to say…
Contacted by The Star in Limpopo, Malema refused to discuss the furore. “I’m not interested in Nando’s, I’m only interested in election results,” he said, adding that there were “more important things than chicken”.
ANCYL spokesperson Floyd Shivambu on Thursday said that, after a 20-minute meeting, Nando’s had agreed to scrap the adverts.
“This was not a difficult issue as they… knew it was a wrong advert. They agreed with us.”
Shivambu said Nando’s would “continue to properly advertise their products in a suitable manner, and disassociate the ANC Youth League and its president, Julius Malema, from their adverts.
“The league strongly believes in freedom of expression and creativity which respects other people and organisations.”
Earlier, the league had said no “lousy explanation” would be good enough for the “disgusting” advertisement, which had used “cheap satire to undermine electoral politics in South Africa”.
I find this all a abit rich, just last week Julias and co were telling us how they used smoke and mirrors to discredit Zille and distract her while the ANC went on to election glory. Surely the Youth League should dismiss this as satire and get on with governing or whatever?
