SIKONATHI MANTSHANTSHA: Not with my bank fees, you don't!
This is the last month in which my meagre salary will go through Standard Bank
SA’s struggle against the evil that was apartheid succeeded only when ordinary men and women in the free world boycotted SA products and sporting teams. The power of the consumer, especially in the 1980s, helped fast-track what successive generations of freedom fighters, including organised political liberation movements and their symbolic militaries, had been struggling to deliver for more than four decades. Similarly, freedom from our criminal, unethical and oppressive business and political practices lies in the power of the individual consumer. At individual level, your refusal to buy goods and services from companies that either benefit from or turn a blind eye to corruption, including that of state capture, is what shall liberate us from this cesspit of corruption.As for me, this is the last month in which my meagre salary will go through Standard Bank, with whom I deposited my first R1,200 pay cheque late in 1997. That ends a relationship started by my mother in the 1970s, th...
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