Craig Langton from Cayenne Honda Kyalami continues to live up to his promise of making motorcycling more affordable in South Africa, he announced today that Cayenne Honda Kyalami will be staging the world’s largest  sale ever staged for the Honda brand, the Cayenne Honda Carnival Sale starting July 1st.

“I am pleased to say that Honda South Africa have joined us in this promotion, it’s always hard work convincing manufacturers to discount their products to assist in growing the industry but as always we knew we could count on Honda SA to come to the party.” said Craig Langton Sales Director of Cayenne Honda Kyalami.

“We will also be laying it on for customers and their families added to the excitement of the Honda carnival, customers can expect the following on Saturdays, free Pop Corn, free Candy Floss, Face painting for the kids, all sales staff to be dressed like clowns, Pop a balloon competition to see what prize you have won and selected Honda genuine accessories below cost,” said Langton.

Honda South Africa’s Barend Fouché said that they were thrilled at the opportunity to give back to the Honda Community and allow the opportunity for more motorcyclists to benefit from the special Honda Carnival discounts and for new riders to experience the special performance and reliability of Honda motorcycles.

From the 1^st of July to the 29^th of August, brand new Honda motorcycles will be sold at prices never to be repeated in South Africa and exclusive to Honda Kyalami and Cayenne World. “In some instances certain Honda units will almost be R70 000 below the normal retail price, but the largest percentage savings are to be had in the 500 to 750cc segment this being up to R20 000,” said Langton. “Over and above this all of these motorcycles qualify for FlexiFin which means 0% deposit and the lowest instalments imaginable, included in the Cayenne Honda Kyalami Carnival sale is over R 2 million in Honda, parts and accessories that will be discounted during the Carnival period.”

In addition Honda Kyalami @ Cayenne World are going to add to the excitement by offering daily prizes to all customers purchasing Honda motorcycles, parts and accessories during the Carnival.

“We will be announcing all the Honda Carnival prices at the end of the month, but to give buyers some idea on the crazy pricing the Honda CBR 1000 SP Marc Marquez Moto GP Replica was  R 189 900, the new Carnival sale price will be fixed at R169 900.” said Langton.

The RC213V MotoGP racer for those who can afford it will also go at a special show price as well, developed by Honda Racing Corporation (HRC) and Honda Motor, the RC213V-S is a road-going prototype of the RC213V winning MotoGP Championship machine. Inspired by and developed with input from many legendary GP riders, the RC213V-S Prototype is set to be the ultimate road-going motorcycle.

Asked how they got to offer these prices Craig Langton said “Both Honda SA and Honda Kyalami had to cut our normal margins with some help from the factory, plus we had some committed funds from our shopping festival that we will be using, we have also added some lost leaders at our cost.” Both Honda SA and the factory are excited about the Carnival Sale, the WHY they are doing it, is the Cayenne Honda Kyalami’s strategy of making the Honda’s more affordable to all with their regular promotions and incentives.

All prices on the Honda range and the Carnival activities will be announced at the end of June

IT TOOK apartheid’s bullies a long time to learn that force will be met with force, that violence begets violence, and so on. Most citizens lived through apartheid’s endgame, especially those in the plush seats with their struggle credentials, which is why citizens may safely assume that their government knows it cannot serve the people by abusing them.

At least, Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa should know it, but also in great part because he is a flyfisher, which by definition means he is a man of good character and superior intelligence, and possessed of goodwill towards his fellow citizens. We know this also because unless you’re a medical professional, it takes special fortitude and empathy to remove a fish hook from the flesh of a fellow flyfisher and still retain his friendship. Such an event (as related by Business Day columnist Allister Sparks) — in which Ramaphosa wielded the pliers and National Party negotiator Roelf Meyer was the beneficiary — became central to the myth of SA’s negotiated revolution.

However, now it seems the rainbow-babble has evaporated: we no longer trust the government, and certainly not with fish hooks.

Ramaphosa and his boss should know that it doesn’t matter how deeply the government discounts its e-tolls offer, Gauteng freeway users won’t pay. They won’t pay because the resistance to e-tolling is not about the money. Just as the anti-apartheid struggle was never about unfair wages but about being recognised as citizens, so e-tolling is about the utter disdain with which the government treats the citizens.

The resistance to e-tolling is a tax revolt about service delivery and electricity and land and water. It is about corruption from the lowliest traffic cop all the way to Nkandla. It is about the blue-light brigades and the bloated public service and the waste, overspending and ridiculously high pay packets in public office.

It is about crime and poverty and misery and the arms deal and Marikana and an endless succession of chief prosecutors, and because every time the state breaks the law we have to take it to court. It is because we have already paid for the privilege to drive to work on decent roads.

It is because we the people are unhappy with you the government.

The resistance to e-tolling is about the government refusing to take responsibility for its actions and blaming everything except itself for its troubles. It is about expecting Gauteng road users to help the government meet its debt obligations to avoid a ratings downgrade, as National Treasury deputy director-general Ismail Momoniat puts it,

The resistance to e-tolling is about the predictable yet disappointing way Ramaphosa suggests the changes indicate that his is "a listening, responsive, responsible and caring government", as reported by the SABC, while in the same announcement we are told that the government will use vehicle licence renewals to force us to pay e-tolls. The resistance is about the obscenely cynical way Ramaphosa, his boss and the rest of the government feed us ordure and expect us to like it.

The resistance to e-tolling, Mr Ramaphosa, is about you and your government being deaf to everything South Africans are telling you (except to what your sycophants say) and it is about your readiness to use administrative violence to force the people to obey. Perhaps that is something your government learnt from the apartheid regime, who knows? What we do know is that an oppressor will get his backside kicked, every time, exactly as the apartheid regime did.

Good luck with getting the hook out of your flesh, Mr Ramaphosa.

• Blom is a freelance journalist. He likes to flyfish.