In an effort to keep Joburg Org’s public abreast of its activities, an email promo called JOBURG BUZZ NEWSLETTER was concocted some years ago. Although intended to be a weekly issue, as the org diminished in resources and activity, so did the frequency of the newsletter which has dwindled to a sporadic now-and-again occurrence.

As is peculiar to the the world of corporate scientology, they live in a bubble of NOW – the ability to see their own dwindling spiral over time seems to be somewhat absent. This is probably attributed to a number of factors including the insanity of operating on a policy of ONLY THIS WEEK MATTERS, ALWAYS promote unprecedented expansion despite irrefutable evidence to the contrary and NEVER admit there may be trouble in paradise.

More tragically though is those who continue glugging the koolaid – blindly believing everything spoon fed to them by the church. The inability of some to see or believe the truth of what is really going on is astounding. It would seem that for those still in, they’re intentionally having to dumb themselves down, keep their heads down and their eyes blindfolded. Why else would they stay?

Going back through our records of JOBURG BUZZ newsletters, this is the picture that unfolds:

In December 2012, this is an excerpt from the JOBURG BUZZ of the graduates, birthday game players and Dianetics Seminar graduates:

Summary:

Graduates (notably most are OT Committee): 14

Birthday Game players (excluding kids): 7

Dianetics Seminar Graduates: 12

Of special note is the widely disseminated Dianetics website and how this resulted in people pouring in for free Book1 sessions, moving onto the Dianetics Seminar and stating they were expecting a larger inflow of people in the future.

Moving along to 2013, and here are pictures from the 30 July edition:

Summary:

Graduates 15

Birthday Game players (excluding kids): 5

Dianetics Seminar Graduates: NR

Onto 2014, and we selected the April 2014 edition as this saw a marked increase due to the GAT2 flurry of activity with everybody routed onto the Purif & SRD:

Summary:

Graduates 16

Birthday Game players (excluding kids): 18

Dianetics Seminar Graduates: NR

Not sure how 18 Birthday Game Players resulted in only 16 graduates, but these days donating huge sums of cash also qualifies one for a Birthday Game award – not that donations form any part of the stats for the Birthday Game.

And then we get to 2015.

By this point Joburg had given up trying to issue the JOBURG BUZZ weekly. In the May 2015 edition, they proudly announce having won the International Birthday Game for that week (this is for all Class V orgs on the planet). This is what that week’s production looked like:

Summary:

Graduates 7

Birthday Game players (excluding kids): 4

Dianetics Seminar Graduates: NR

In June there was no JOBURG BUZZ – possibly because of the MV Events which took precedence. During any major event, it is customary to cancel graduation at Joburg Org.

Below is the latest (July) edition. It’s important to note the pictures selected for these newsletters are THE BEST Joburg Org has to offer for that month.

Summary:

Graduates 4

Birthday Game players (excluding kids): 1

Dianetics Seminar Graduates: NR

PE Course Graduates: 8

Of all these editions, July 2015 is by far the saddest and most pathetic to date.

Some points to consider:

Every graduate is a long-time Scientologist – not one new face to be seen (this applies to most of the other editions)

Only one report on Dianetics seminar graduates in two years. This despite promises about imminent major inflow of public – obviously never happened.

Winning the International Birthday game with 7 graduates is sad testament to the state of affairs on an international scale. If Joburg won the birthday game with this level of production, what are other orgs on the planet doing?

In the July newsletter, PE Seminar graduates are accompanied by OT8 Ciaran Ryan who looks woefully unhappy in this photo. He’s also holding a certificate – how many PE courses has this poor guy done in an attempt to boost stats? These “graduates” look like they were herded in purely on a stat-push and it’s guaranteed they will not appear in any future events. In 2012 a briefing was given to public about Joburg Org having delivered the PE course to over 900 people – where are they?

The latest (July) edition has photos of the purif, courserooms, cafateria and auditing room utterly bereft of any public. Prophetic?

And to end off, our final coup de grace which leaves no doubt about the state of Joburg Org:

Below are two pictures of Joburg Org staff. The first was taken in 2011 and featured in all the 2011/2012 JOBURG BUZZ newsletters. By 2013 so many staff had left or blown it became necessary to update the photo, and so another was taken circa 2013/2014.

By the end of 2014, the staff situation was so dire the staff photo was permanently removed from the newsletter.

The faces crossed out are those staff who are no longer in service due to having blown, got transferred, contracts ended, got declared or died.

JOBURG ORG DAY & FDN STAFF – 2011/2012

JOBURG ORG DAY & FDN STAFF – 2013/2014

Our shout-out to Joburg Org:

“Hey Albert & Co – play the game and publish the current staff photo in the next JOBURG BUZZ – we would love to see how you guys are doing now”.

So much more can be said about this, but we’ll leave that for your comments. If you have any news on how your local org/s are doing, let us know.