@King50247897@scorpionkzn@dlaminizb12 And it leaves out the labour market: 33.6% unemployment, 8.5 million people, 60.9% for 15–24 year olds (Stats SA, Q2 2026).
Progress is real. So is the collapse. Both belong on the chart.
@King50247897@scorpionkzn@dlaminizb12 of it. Freight volumes: 226Mt in 2017 → 149Mt in 2022.
• Roads +132% is a change in what gets counted, not 427,000km of new road.
• GDP and JSE numbers are nominal. Population went 40m → 63m and the rand went R3.50 → R18. Real GDP per capita is back at 2008 levels.
@SK42919864@Rahul_AJ_1990 Agreed, the 87/13 land split was one of apartheid's worst injustices, and I've never said otherwise. But the question was banned vs restricted, and you've moved on from it. We're done here. 🖕
@SK42919864@Rahul_AJ_1990 Mashaba launched Black Like Me in 1985 in Ga-Rankuwa, Bophuthatswana, because apartheid law kept him out of industrial land in "white" SA. That's restriction: licences withheld, trade confined to townships and homelands. Brutal, yes. Banned, no. Swearing won't change that.
@SK42919864@Rahul_AJ_1990 Name-calling isn't a source. Here's the record. NAFCOC was founded in 1964 to represent Black business, with Richard Maponya as president, and he was trading in Soweto under apartheid. You can't have a chamber of commerce for businesses that are banned.
@SK42919864@Rahul_AJ_1990 No, you should go learn your history and stop making things up in your head. Black businesses were restricted, not banned. How did Herman Mashaba open his business in 1986?