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If you think SA is cheap then you are being fooled.
UK electricty costs 17 cents in London, 10 to 12 cents outside of London. In the states electricity costs 3,06 cents in some area's. Oh, that's American cents just to draw a comparison.
Chatting to a yank a few weeks back on the plane and i asked him if he thought that SA was cheap. Not really was his answer.
I have been fortunate enough to travel extensively in Europe, the UK and China.
Its amazing that at the end of every month a single middle class person in UK and Europe can have money saved and have a nice price effective international holiday once per year. Notice one thing about China, they are all eating and their average wage in 2006 was RMB800 for those working. A huge part of their population is subsistence farming but they don't starve.
Ask middle class SA's how many are actually saving money. Maybe those that are consolidating two incomes in a house hold. We live hand to mouth.
I love SA but i really think the time has come to level the playing fields and rise to the argument that will prevail at political level to make this a better place. In the states the business's have lobbyist who work the political arena to make the changes in there interest's. Do we still even have this in South Africa. Or are the politicians only swayed by the size of the brown paper bag.
One of the biggest problems that we have had in South Africa is we cannot unite and we are so hell bent on our own personnel goals that we wont let any one close to help us.
The Africans have realised that a long long time ago and they stand together. Why cant we. We have the power, this 8% controls the majority of the money that is moving around this country. We deserve a right to decide, or influence, on what is best for this country and for business as a whole, hell it is our money that others are deciding for us on.
In your business would you employ a unqualified, incapable and inexperienced person to take over as the managing director and lead your business into the future. No, so why the hell are we allowing the politicians who, lets be honest, most have little idea about business, let alone what is is taking us to survive in this battle field, in a recession with high taxation, international competition, labour disputes, strikes, etc.
UK electricty costs 17 cents in London, 10 to 12 cents outside of London. In the states electricity costs 3,06 cents in some area's. Oh, that's American cents just to draw a comparison.
Chatting to a yank a few weeks back on the plane and i asked him if he thought that SA was cheap. Not really was his answer.
I have been fortunate enough to travel extensively in Europe, the UK and China.
Its amazing that at the end of every month a single middle class person in UK and Europe can have money saved and have a nice price effective international holiday once per year. Notice one thing about China, they are all eating and their average wage in 2006 was RMB800 for those working. A huge part of their population is subsistence farming but they don't starve.
Ask middle class SA's how many are actually saving money. Maybe those that are consolidating two incomes in a house hold. We live hand to mouth.
I love SA but i really think the time has come to level the playing fields and rise to the argument that will prevail at political level to make this a better place. In the states the business's have lobbyist who work the political arena to make the changes in there interest's. Do we still even have this in South Africa. Or are the politicians only swayed by the size of the brown paper bag.
One of the biggest problems that we have had in South Africa is we cannot unite and we are so hell bent on our own personnel goals that we wont let any one close to help us.
The Africans have realised that a long long time ago and they stand together. Why cant we. We have the power, this 8% controls the majority of the money that is moving around this country. We deserve a right to decide, or influence, on what is best for this country and for business as a whole, hell it is our money that others are deciding for us on.
In your business would you employ a unqualified, incapable and inexperienced person to take over as the managing director and lead your business into the future. No, so why the hell are we allowing the politicians who, lets be honest, most have little idea about business, let alone what is is taking us to survive in this battle field, in a recession with high taxation, international competition, labour disputes, strikes, etc.
Feeling a bit thick here.
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