MyPE

Community Business Directory, Event Listings, News and Views from Gqeberha, Nelson Mandela Bay

StruggleOpoly – SA’s BEE Monopoly

By

The ultimate capitalist game, Monopoly, should get a facelift to reflect the new South Africa:

The Original Monopoly

Instead of buying streets, houses and hotels, players will get a chance to get fired (sorry re-deployed) from lucrative state jobs, double shares of JSE listed companies if they are a certain colour, complimentary sushi and Breitling watches if they answer ‘struggle’ questions correctly and a mega bonus if they spend time in jail.

Chance and Community Chest cards will be printed on either a white or black background.

The white Chance cards will penalise the players based on their ethnicity, deny the player from buying certain shares or jobs, stop the player from landing on certain ‘reserved’ squares or encourage the player to leave town.

The black Community Chest cards will bestow tenders to build hotels and houses with payment upfront, give a time served in jail boost of 27 years, pass the title of a whisky factory to the player or provide a free pass to a National Sporting Team.

The original game of Monopoly was created in 1935 and 275 million have been sold worldwide.

The longest ever game in history lasted for 70 straight days, while the most expensive version, featuring a 23 carat gold board, was created for jeweller Sidney Mobell (Damn, not our good friend, Julius?).

Article inspired by: Communism takes over Monopoly | Visit the Official Monopoly Site.

Okay and now I am seriously MIFFED as I popped along to Kalahari.net to see if they had a Board Game version of Monopoly – all our Monopoly money at home has been used to buy influence with various political parties – and I cannot see one board game Monopoly version available.

Monopoly only seems to be available on Kalahari for:

Bugger.

The following two tabs change content below.
My Twitter profileMy Facebook profileMy Google+ profileMy LinkedIn profileMy Flickr profileMy Pinterest profile

Alan Straton

Chief Cook, Bottle Washer and Broom Mechanic at MyPE
Passionate about Port Elizabeth and definitely NOT packing for Perth. Alan's ethos is epitomised in the words of Nelson Mandela; "I have fought against white domination and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the idea of a democratic and free society. If need be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die." See more articles by Alan.