As a fellow member of the non-gloom brigade, I want to add to Steven Friedman’s insightful column (Whinge, Whinge, Whinge ... Why the Middle Class Needs to Trim Expectations, September 18 (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/columnists/2019-09-17-steven-friedman-whinge-whinge-whinge-why-the-middle-class-needs-to-trim-expectations/)).
I emigrated to this country in 1985 as a recently graduated mechanical engineer to join Anglo American on one of its gold mines in Welkom. Having grown up in Northern Ireland and living through “the Troubles” it could be said that I went from the frying pan into the fire...
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