So, once again it's been a while. Times are tough in business and requires most of my attention and care. No more working for a boss, no more guaranteed 13th cheque. No more "if I work my butt off or not I'll still get paid".
The market is volatile and ups and downs are the order of the day. You can never sit back and relax and if things are good today, it's no guarantee that it will be up tomorrow again.
This constant fight for survival is getting to me now. The yo yo-ing petrol price, ever increasing food prices, electricity that's jumped skigh-high (three times my previous account from one month to the next) and threats of another 30% increase next year! Where will it end?
Then there's the NHI (National Health Insurance). What a lot of bull! The clothing industry has been on strike (latest), the soldiers were on strike, SARS employees striked, the 2010 stadium building unions have been on strike, university students had their own strikes (and where they did not strike, strikers were bussed in to strike). Even PAGAD (People against gangsterism and drugs) had their spot in the limelight. Seems this is the fashionable thing to do. But where does it leave the average hard-working Joe Public?
Remember that saying about taxing the working class to death in order to look after the jobless? That's what's happening here. With this new so-called NHI government wants money, lots of it. According to them each and every working citizen will contribute towards it. Even if you have your own private medical aid. And this will be for what?
The ANC promised free medical care to the masses (and that was only one of many promises) but it took them 15 years to realise that it cost money. That's one I forgot, the doctors went on strike! About half our population is jobless and due to the nature of things, they're the ones who need medical care. More than half live under the breadline and cannot afford rising food prices. Half of this half turned to crime of which maybe a tenth are brought to book for crimes committed. Now stay with me - of this tenth some 20 000 gets released from jail due to police bungling or bribery or jails being overcrowded only to return to crime. After all, that's what they know best and puts food on the table.
I'm paying a staggering R 3500.00 every month for healthcare (and that's only for two of us in very good health). What we have here is a government who wants every-one on the same level (except of course government ministers and their buddies and of course the ultra-rich who's scooping the cream off government contracts).
Many years ago my mother asked a black employee what would happen once a black government came into power. The reply was that it would be one big party and everyone will have lots of money. The next question was - what if the money ran out? The reply - then we'll all die together.
What I see in the future (and this is embedded in the general black population) is that the people will suffer. The people voted into power will live in luxury, ultra luxury. And the people will be happy because their rulers must be successful having sooo much money to throw around, therefore the country must prosper. As long as there's a distinction between rich, middle-class and poor our government will not rest. We must all be poor!
The Caster Semenya saga continues with asshole Malema once again showing what a dick he is. Sorry, but there's no other way of expressing what I'm feeling. Story is, Athletics South Africa has a boss man who lied and cheated (or is that the other way round?). He kept his job after being found out. Never mind the fact that he disgraced our nation and harmed our reputation as a sporting nation infinitely, he's still in charge. Now Nedbank, who is a major sponsor of athletics in this country, decided to terminate it's sponsorship at the end of it's contract period, which is good. They obviously don't want to be associated with liars and cheaters. Malema came on TV (SABC2 breakfast show) and claimed that the ANCYL will take Nedbank on and set things right? Where have you ever seen someone claiming that it's not the organisation but an individual who caused the damage if that individual represents the organisation and still has his job?
Sorry to say but this is kaffir logic. It is so frustrating and even more infuriating to listen to and / or watch this bull. The mans' got standard eight for heavens' sake, he's not a little pimple-faced teenager anymore! Now you know what drivel we have to put up with.
Nestlé has been supporting Mugabe in Zimbabwe with milk products produced on "stolen" farms run by his wife. I say we should boycott them right 'till the end of days. They claim (after much public outcry) that they've cancelled the contract but all they've done is to re-route the whole thing through a third-party.
I'm gonna miss their chocolates... |
