And we’re not even talking about Tuesday when Capitec clients opened their accounts on payday only to find a heart-and-gut-wrenching bank balance of R0,0.
Some people love to talk about how they hauled themselves up by their bootstraps, but the reality is that breaking the cycle of poverty is a little tougher than that.
Poverty in South Africa is rife, but giving money to anyone who asks whenever they ask for it is not helping anyone. The SAPS certainly agree.
This is the mystery of Creed’s lead man. Where has his money gone? But more importantly, where has his mind gone? And will he ever get either of them back?
The ANC is always full of surprises, but usually it’s individual members doing something. Here we get to see the entire party up in arms about their financial situation.
In true Malema fashion, the EFF have burst upon the parliamentary scene full of vigour, colour, song and… is that dust?
We spotted an article on BusinessInsider about a Reddit post which showed a search for high and low end retailers, as a way to define a city’s rich and poor areas. We did the same thing, pitting Woolworths against Shoprite. Here are the results:
Less than a minute into a speech to mark the month-to-go countdown to the start of the Olympics yesterday, Britain’s prime minister got heckled by a protester. The guy shouted: “Shame on you, David Cameron – you are crippling the poor in London. Shame on you!” Cameron’s response? “Don’t spoil it, sir!”