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Re:South African province spends $15.4M (140M ZAR) on WordPr... by wsc981 on Monday March 04, 2013 @02:29PM (#5320229)
Personally I tend to think this is corruption though. Stuff like this even happens quite often in the developed world. Some official grants a job to a friend of him and perhaps the profits are shared somehow. A recent example from the Netherlands also involving a Wordpress site (translated to English):

http://bit.ly/W0dUkt

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Re:South African province spends $15.4M (140M ZAR) on WordPr... by hackmiester on Monday March 04, 2013 @05:48PM (#5321559)
The phrase "Un-fucking-believable" here was extremely jarring, especially since "fucking" was in the original text! Very interesting.
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