Nando’s Jokes About Andre De Ruyter’s Eskom Resignation, Advert Leaves Mzansi Peeps Scratching Their Heads

Nando’s Jokes About Andre De Ruyter’s Eskom Resignation, Advert Leaves Mzansi Peeps Scratching Their Heads

  • Nando's is back with another shady marketing effort and this time it has to do with the recently resigned CEO of Eskom, Andre de Ruyter
  • The popular restaurant franchise took to social media to join South Africans in their reactions to Andre leaving Eskom amid a crisis
  • The Nando's marketing team may have missed the mark as online users were confused about the joke

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Nando's chimed in on the recent developments with the now-former CEO of Eskom. The fast-food is well known for combining entertainment with social commentary.

Nando's, Andre de Ruyter
Nando's cracked a joke that did not land with South Africa as many said they did not get it. Image: Keith Mayhew/ Waldo Swiegers
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Nando's shared what was supposed to be a hilarious reference about Andre's retirement. People flooded the comments with a lot of harsh reviews for the franchise's attempt to be relatable to its customers.

Eskom former CEO Andre de Ruyter catches heat from Nando's

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Nando's South Africa took to Twitter to joke about Andre de Ruyter resigning as Eskom's CEO. The restaurant shared a picture captioned: "Ke Dezemba no boss?". The picture was a poster which read:

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"CEO 0.0.0 , 6-8 stages of experience needed. "

Tweeps not amused by Nando's Andre de Ruyter Eskom joke

Online users didn't get the joke and many were not shy to let them know. One online user even rated their joke out of 10 and gave them a zero. Many people questioned why they never had a joke about Cyril Ramaphosa's Phala Phala scandal. Twitter fave Sol Phenduka from Podcast and Chill even said Nando's Twitter account needs new management and peeps agreed.

@thatondzelu commented:

"0/10."

@williammalimane commented:

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"What does the “O.O.O” mean/represent?"

@khutso_95 commented:

"Ya'll didn't even try."

@MphoMaboi_ commented:

"Maybe I’m slow. I need someone to explain the punchline for me."

@Bosto_M commented:

"You missed out on Phala Phala."

@fumikayi1 commented:

"You can tell this "joke" was approved in a bhodrum coz i'm very bhod by it."

@AdolfMathebula commented:

"Ya’ll are rusting shem… try again."

"Stage 30, sun is off": Man guesses how Stage 10 loadshedding works, SA dusted

Briefly News has previously reported that an online user felt the pressure from the country-wide loadshedding issue. The hilarious man created a skit showing people what they can expect if the country reaches Stage 10 loadshedding.

In the skit, the comedian shows how South Africans will not even be allowed to make themselves food. People could not stop cracking up over the TikTok.

A creator, @thando_comedy, shared a video of what he thinks loadshedding Stage 10 is like.

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Rutendo Masasi (Human-Interest editor) Rue Masasi is a Human Interest and Entertainment writer at Briefly News who graduated with a BA (Hons) in English from Rhodes University in 2018. Rue also has 2 years of experience in journalism and over four years of experience as an online ESL teacher. She has also passed a set of trainings by Google News Initiative. You can reach her via email: rutendo.masasi@briefly.co.za