I have a strong suspicion that the conspicuous lack of orange overalls within the SA landscape may bear a strong correlation to the fact that the textile industry in SA was in effect destroyed by the ANC and its blood brothers in the textile workers union.
Perhaps it was perceptive judgment on the part of the corrupt in their ranks that a shortage of stock needed to be engineered ahead of any pending rising demand curve. That said, a wider conspiracy cannot be ruled out as our head honcho built his political career as a committed trade unionist...
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