"THE South African economy is underperforming as it slips into continued tepid growth, Standard Bank chief economist Goolam Ballim"
I'm sitting here getting hella pissed at one of our creditors. She keeps on harassing me about when we're going to pay her. And the more I explain that our bookkeeper will get to it asap, the more she's complaining.
Now you would think that we are being unreasonable. But not really. Her account always gets paid round about the 15th. After expressing my frustration with one of my colleagues, she told me that I shouldn't be so harsh. This lady might be in need of the money. Like an emergency or something. So the other colleague just said that with the economy of today, it shouldn't be surprising that more and more people are getting impatient when it comes the money matters. And it dawned on me, she's right. Every bit helps right?
I seriously think SA is in a downward spiral. The increasing fuel price, property, tax, telecoms and vehicle rates that just keep on escalating, and that its the highest in the WORLD!!!! The price of everything is increasing. Necessities, food, clothing, property rates and taxes, municipal bill. EVERYTHING, yet our salaries remain the same. The poor gets poorer and the rich gets richer.
For the love of God I also can't understand why we are the only people in the Western Cape that has to pay an electricity levy? You buy R200 prepaid electricity and you only get 109 units!! Are you fucking jas! In the City of Cape Town there is no such thing. I cant help but feel that this Municipality is cheating us. Then there's the water and refuse. Why are some peoples accounts (With more or less the same usage) sky high and others really low. My one boss is such a perfectionist. He actually came across the error. And found that they are over billing him. He literally went and counted his meter repeatedly for two months, and used the same calculation they did, and found that they over billed him one month for R4900. And there is many more instances like that. Yet the tax payer cant do anything....
Back to my previous point. People will become more relentless if this keep on happening. They will be more demanding when it comes to money owed to them, because they need it fill other holes. The upper class of course, will obviously not feel this drought. The reason I'm saying that is because I've experienced it first hand with clients. And they all seem to be medium to lower class working folk.
All we can do is pray and hope that someone comes up with a better solution. A more sustainable one.
This really is a sad world we live in. Always prepare for the worst, and don't buy those shoes lol
