We middle-class South Africans have had a hard year. Electricity supply has been erratic, pipe replacement projects across Johannesburg have meant long waterless spells; more women have been murdered or raped in 2019, with frighteningly high gender-based violence.
More importantly, most of us have had to make do with less as prices have risen while salaries have not. ..
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