It’s one thing to be forwarding a funny email on to those that you feel might benefit from the humour you found to be present in said email. But what happens when you’re a moderately big cheese at a major construction and infrastructure development company and the joke is politically incorrect, and you get caught?

Well a junior manager of Grinaker LTA is busy finding out the answer to that question the hard way after allegedly sending an email “depicting an image of two Black boys crawling on all fours, on a gravel road in some remote farm, while being ridden by two White boys.” And the subject line you ask?

“quad bikes in the good old days.”

It isn’t difficult to work out what might be causing the issue here, and it certainly isn’t what we here at the vibe deem as funny. But what is hilarious is just how pissed off some guys are at hearing of the email.

In a letter written to the CEO, Dr Bandile Hadebe, director of planning and foresight at the Presidential National Commission on Information Society and Development said:

…that [the email] is not only derogatory but categorically reduces all black people in this country to sub-human status; mere vehicles for ensuring white people’s comfort and carrying them across gravel roads.

The sender of the offending email, Otto Botha, has been suspended pending an investigation.

Dr Hadebe also chose to use the opportunity to bless us with a lovely new quote. Appreciate please:

If you have ever sat around a fire, cooking a potjie at Oppikoppie and thought that [youth league leader] Julius Malema was your worst nightmare, imagine a Malema with a degree, and you have just pissed him off. This is personal.

[Source: mail&guardian]