It is an unfortunate aspect of human nature and a blight on one’s conscience that there are some who will make profit out of another ‘s misfortune.
In these tough economic times, when people are stretching their budgets to a point beyond the sun, the loan shark is there with a sweet smile and a black ballpoint pen and you become part of the roundabout of debt.
I realise it is very easy to say ‘ don’t do it people’ but one has to pay the rent and one’s little people, and pets, do not understand when there is no food on the table.
Many citizens will mumble a prayer each night to the credit card angel, as sometimes that piece of plastic is all that is standing between hard times and distressing times.
Pity that our fine government, which uses the ‘ we gave you freedom call’ to draw my milling, politically numb, fellow South Africans back to the ranks, does not step up and do something constructive to help these freed citizens.
Use some of the treasury funds that have not been looted or siphoned away, to subsidise the petrol price.
I am not an economist but any South African can see that the cost of everything is directly intertwined with the price of fuel – taxi fares, bread, milk, maize meal. And these are the basic bricks of life as we know it.
The upper management, senior managers and managers of this business called Republic of South Africa, do not appreciate the bind that their fellow South Africans are in.
They do not feel it because they are well fed and adequately watered and, despite all the rhetoric about how wonderful and resilient we South Africans are, does EXCO really care as they order another bottle with a blue label.
As in other countries, when unemployment hits chronic levels food kitchens are established to feed those who have nothing.
Taking a second look here, if food supply contractors cannot get food to schools – what chance feeding the unemployed?
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