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News24 Sunday reports that illegal filling of LPG cylinders is widespread with rogue refillers now controlling more than a 1/4 of the SA market. Illegal refillers don’t inspect cylinders and have them in circulation longer than they should be, making those cylinders dangerous.
The anomaly in South Africa is not just high taxes - it’s paying nearly 50% of your income to the state and still having to fund your own healthcare, education, transport, housing, and security. Citizens are paying twice: once through taxes, and again for the services those taxes should provide.
South Africans are deeply frustrated and with good reason about illegal immigration and the pressure it places on already scarce opportunities.
But the real crisis is not the immigrants themselves. The root cause is our failure, over the past fifteen years, to deliver inclusive economic growth that creates enough jobs, dignity and hope for our own people.
This failure has been driven by three systemic issues we can no longer ignore:
• A collapse in the rule of law that has enabled corruption, criminality, land invasions, illegal migration, and the brazen theft of electricity and water.
• Bureaucracy and red tape that continue to strangle enterprise, deter investment and kill job creation.
• Incompetent and, in too many cases, corrupt leadership in key positions across government, state-owned enterprises and parts of the private sector.
As leaders, we must have the courage to look in the mirror and ask a difficult but necessary question: How have we allowed these conditions to take root and persist?
This question is not about blame. It is about responsibility and that is precisely why it is empowering. It places the power to change things back where it belongs: with us. We are not helpless. We are not victims of forces beyond our control. By focusing on what lies within our sphere of influence our decisions, our standards, our willingness to confront uncomfortable truths and act decisively, we can begin to reverse the damage we have helped create.
The time for self-criticism and honest reflection is now. The time for excuses has long passed. South Africa’s future will be determined by leaders who are prepared to own their part in the mess and do the hard, disciplined work required to fix it.
Even as a lawyer, I refrain from commenting on certain areas of the law. I do so because I’m not well versed in them. It appears that a lot of people on social media don’t want to do that. Fine, but at least read first before commenting.
You cannot, for example, hear of a review application and your analysis is that “The High Court can’t overturn ConCourt!”. A review application of a report means no such thing.
I accept that certain legal concepts are not always easy to grasp — I, too, often grapple with some. That’s why it is important to research, to ask, whatever you need to do in order to understand what you’re commenting on. Otherwise you end up like Vuyo Zungula, who doesn’t understand that dismissing an application for direct access does not mean dismissing the merits of a case.
There were a group of young South Africans who funded their own trips to AFCON earlier this year. Really showed up for the boys in the cold and rain.
You should look out for those guys - it would be nice to see at least a couple of them in the stands at the WC.
We are experiencing Odyssean Malaria ( suitcase malaria) where these female mosquitoes have travelled across these borders and made its way to JHB.
Rainy, damp, humid areas are where it thrives.
Take care of yourselves. It’s not just a normal flu. You will DIE