SA, with all its resources, is a very poor country for many reasons. We have a society that has the world’s highest unemployment rate, accompanied by mass poverty.
Many families struggle to pay for basic foods. Others are literally starving. Yet with all our problems, requiring so much energy and effort to fix, we regularly increase the price of chicken — the most popular and cheapest form of protein available...
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