South Africa’s economy wasn’t built on informal retail. It was built on mining, manufacturing, agriculture, finance, telecommunications and industry. Informal trade fills a gap, it is not the engine of investment or economic growth as it may be in your country. Yet you have the audacity to call us idiots.
Serious economies attract investment through policy certainty, infrastructure, the rule of law, energy security, skilled labour and market demand, not by ensuring illegal businesses can operate without consequence.
You’ve confused the informal economy with productive investment. That kind of shallow analysis is precisely why you left your own country for the UK yet you are very opinionated about the South African economy.
"Much is being said and written today about the disintegrating forces which are at work among the Bantu as a consequence of the advent of Western civilisation. The loss of some of the good Bantu customs is being justifiably deplored and the resentment by the black man of the white man's ways is receiving daily expression. But the present state of affairs amongst our people demands more from our Native leaders than a mere recital of the fact that Western civilization is the fount of the whole trouble. There are two enemies rampant among the Bantu today: there is religious indifference and there is also drunkenness which has given genesis to the present low moral standard of our people. I am firmly convinced that if these two evils are eradicated the Bantu future will be brighter."
- Dr Jacob M. Nhlapo, 'The Bantu Future' , Umteteli wa Bantu, September 3, 1927.
SOUTH AFRICA is a fucking miracle, and BEING SOUTH AFRICAN is a fucking honor and a privilege. Don’t let anyone ever tell you any other nonsense!!!! 🇿🇦💯
@Corballyred Why do people keep forgetting to mention that he did tell the club that he plans to leave like two weeks before the season ended, and now they wonder why he's forcing an exit 🚮