CHARMAIN NAIDOO: The MTBPS, Eskom, Portugal and crying. In the dark
When I objected, a friend who owns an apartment in London said South Africans have no reason to complain about our cheap electricity — but it's not cheap if it doesn’t work!
01 November 2019 - 05:05
Aaaaaaaaah! I want to pull my duvet over my head and hide from the bleak future promised by finance minister Tito Mboweni in his medium-term budget policy statement (MTBPS).
We’re broke, we’re in debt … and the worst of it is that there seems to be very little chance of getting out of it in the foreseeable future. The threats to slash public-sector jobs and salaries will, no doubt, result in a furious response from those already poorly paid teachers and nurses and policemen...
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