Price shock for South Africa as food inflation hits highest point in 14 years

And the bad news is that it's going to get worst.

With load shedding and higher input prices the supply side is really struggling.
 
rvZA said:
Believe what you want. All that I can say is that with the quality of all South African business leaders, politicians and CEOs today, there is a serious lack of capabilities to run, let alone turn around the economy.
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I am from Bloemfontein. I recently had to take an "emergency" drive to cape town for a funeral. Besides the load shedding, they have none of the general decay the rest of the country has. Refuse is collected. I didnt have to dodge a pothole once. That said I stayed in an AirBNB in Durbanville and funeral was in Mitchell's Plain. Not sure what the rest of Cape Town is like. Used the N1 the entire way. Didnt see any potholes there either on the Western Cape side. No sewerage smell. No sewerage drains overflowing into the streets. Just seems like everything works there. Night and day difference from the shthole Bloemfontein has become.

But I am by no means a DA fanboi. My opinion WAS that they screw over the rate payer with exhorbitant fees. So I asked a friend who lives in Cape Town what he pays the municipality for services actually received. Low and behold, his municipal account is R100 cheaper than mine. And I get fckall services. Our properties are more or less the same size and both in "good" areas. I have never voted for the DA before, but believe they and the FF+ (never voted for them before either) are the answer to South Africa's problems if the masses would just get their heads out their pit toilets and smell the sht.
 
It's not only happening here, it's a global problem. Regular headline in the UK.

Difference is, we'll still be experiencing this long after it eases overseas, thanks to our intelligence-divergent government.
 
ProfA said:
I am from Bloemfontein. I recently had to take an "emergency" drive to cape town for a funeral. Besides the load shedding, they have none of the general decay the rest of the country has. Refuse is collected. I didnt have to dodge a pothole once. That said I stayed in an AirBNB in Durbanville and funeral was in Mitchell's Plain. Not sure what the rest of Cape Town is like. Used the N1 the entire way. Didnt see any potholes there either on the Western Cape side. No sewerage smell. No sewerage drains overflowing into the streets. Just seems like everything works there. Night and day difference from the shthole Bloemfontein has become.

But I am by no means a DA fanboi. My opinion WAS that they screw over the rate payer with exhorbitant fees. So I asked a friend who lives in Cape Town what he pays the municipality for services actually received. Low and behold, his municipal account is R100 cheaper than mine. And I get fckall services. Our properties are more or less the same size and both in "good" areas. I have never voted for the DA before, but believe they and the FF+ (never voted for them before either) are the answer to South Africa's problems if the masses would just get their heads out their pit toilets and smell the sht.
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Cape Town is full - feck off, the lot of you. Actually I'm leaving the country soon - anybody keen to buy my beachside property ?
 
chuckles_the_cnt said:
Cape Town is full - feck off, the lot of you. Actually I'm leaving the country soon - anybody keen to buy my beachside property ?
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I know someone who will purchase it for BTC. I mean the captonians can always move to the south pole to get away from all the people moving down
 
rvZA said:
It is game over for SA. There is no turning around. There is no saving the country. Things are about to get a whole lot worse. Wish I could say there was another government that could save the country, but the reality is that there is none. There is no more experience left to save it.
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Of course it's able to be fixed. We have the greatest people here. You need to look at what we have, and who we are. All you're doing is seeing the darkness.
 
The Darkness said:
Of course it's able to be fixed. We have the greatest people here. You need to look at what we have, and who we are. All you're doing is seeing the darkness.
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I see you, yes :)
 
The Darkness said:
Of course it's able to be fixed. We have the greatest people here. You need to look at what we have, and who we are. All you're doing is seeing the darkness.
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I can confirm this, currently being load shedded and sitting in darkness . Out of here on April. Luckily I've found work for my soon to be retrenched staff
 
ProfA said:
I am from Bloemfontein. I recently had to take an "emergency" drive to cape town for a funeral. Besides the load shedding, they have none of the general decay the rest of the country has. Refuse is collected. I didnt have to dodge a pothole once. That said I stayed in an AirBNB in Durbanville and funeral was in Mitchell's Plain. Not sure what the rest of Cape Town is like. Used the N1 the entire way. Didnt see any potholes there either on the Western Cape side. No sewerage smell. No sewerage drains overflowing into the streets. Just seems like everything works there. Night and day difference from the shthole Bloemfontein has become.

But I am by no means a DA fanboi. My opinion WAS that they screw over the rate payer with exhorbitant fees. So I asked a friend who lives in Cape Town what he pays the municipality for services actually received. Low and behold, his municipal account is R100 cheaper than mine. And I get fckall services. Our properties are more or less the same size and both in "good" areas. I have never voted for the DA before, but believe they and the FF+ (never voted for them before either) are the answer to South Africa's problems if the masses would just get their heads out their pit toilets and smell the sht.
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I am not very far from Durbanville i am about 8km or so closer to the beach side, driving to town CBD every morning majority of the way all i smell is sewerage through the whole of Milnerton sewerage leaks into both the vlei and canals there, its very hit and miss in CT. Potholes once reported generally get fixed in 3 to 5 business days but they just come and drop some tar in it and after the first rain it washes away and the hole is back.
 
Have to say I shop in different areas frequently (lower, middle and upper class areas) and I have noticed that the price of canned food, potatoes, meat and bread vary significantly between the stores (even if it is say a spar or checkers). I no longer drink but have also noticed that the price of beer varies significantly by area.

The reason stores get away with this is because people have a routine and tend to go to the same 2 or 3 stores and only change that if they are out of the neighbourhood.
 
ProfA said:
I am from Bloemfontein. I recently had to take an "emergency" drive to cape town for a funeral. Besides the load shedding, they have none of the general decay the rest of the country has. Refuse is collected. I didnt have to dodge a pothole once. That said I stayed in an AirBNB in Durbanville and funeral was in Mitchell's Plain. Not sure what the rest of Cape Town is like. Used the N1 the entire way. Didnt see any potholes there either on the Western Cape side. No sewerage smell. No sewerage drains overflowing into the streets. Just seems like everything works there. Night and day difference from the shthole Bloemfontein has become.

But I am by no means a DA fanboi. My opinion WAS that they screw over the rate payer with exhorbitant fees. So I asked a friend who lives in Cape Town what he pays the municipality for services actually received. Lo and behold, his municipal account is R100 cheaper than mine. And I get fckall services. Our properties are more or less the same size and both in "good" areas. I have never voted for the DA before, but believe they and the FF+ (never voted for them before either) are the answer to South Africa's problems if the masses would just get their heads out their pit toilets and smell the sht.
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My Man.

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ProfA said:
I am from Bloemfontein. I recently had to take an "emergency" drive to cape town for a funeral. Besides the load shedding, they have none of the general decay the rest of the country has. Refuse is collected. I didnt have to dodge a pothole once. That said I stayed in an AirBNB in Durbanville and funeral was in Mitchell's Plain. Not sure what the rest of Cape Town is like. Used the N1 the entire way. Didnt see any potholes there either on the Western Cape side. No sewerage smell. No sewerage drains overflowing into the streets. Just seems like everything works there. Night and day difference from the shthole Bloemfontein has become.

But I am by no means a DA fanboi. My opinion WAS that they screw over the rate payer with exhorbitant fees. So I asked a friend who lives in Cape Town what he pays the municipality for services actually received. Low and behold, his municipal account is R100 cheaper than mine. And I get fckall services. Our properties are more or less the same size and both in "good" areas. I have never voted for the DA before, but believe they and the FF+ (never voted for them before either) are the answer to South Africa's problems if the masses would just get their heads out their pit toilets and smell the sht.
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The DA Fd up joburg and Pretoria
 
AstroTurf said:
Have to say I shop in different areas frequently (lower, middle and upper class areas) and I have noticed that the price of canned food, potatoes, meat and bread vary significantly between the stores (even if it is say a spar or checkers). I no longer drink but have also noticed that the price of beer varies significantly by area.

The reason stores get away with this is because people have a routine and tend to go to the same 2 or 3 stores and only change that if they are out of the neighbourhood.
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Two additional factors:
1) Different areas have different property prices. The plot of land right next to the township where the Shoprite is on, is going to be worth much less than the plot of land that the Checkers hyper is built on in a nice leafy suburb.
2) "Rich" people are willing to pay for a premium to not shop at the place poor people shop at. In poorer areas, shops have an incentive to cram as much stuff into the shops as possible. So they will put stuff on the floor of an aisle and make it smaller such that people walk slower because they cannot get past the tannie deciding what flavour of atchar to buy. In a more premium shop, they won't do this because it will piss off their customers who want to be in and out as quick as possible.
 
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