1999 to 2011

Heard that most of the dairy and meat farmers will be withdrawing as they're not getting the price they want on their products.

Which is understandable - they cannot work with a loss - less income than expenditure.
 
Some things don't change in price... My father bought a 286 laptop in 1991 for R3,999 from Game. It had a monochrome screen and MSDOS and was as thick as a phonebook

However, my mom used to give me a R1 coin every wednesday for the school tuckshop in 1992, and it used to buy me a packet of chips and a cooldrink which cost me 80c, and I'd by a few toffees with the remaining 20c.

It's all relative. My parents bought their first lounge suit in the early 80's for R500 and paid it off. Salaries were low. My mom bought her Mazda 323 in '81 for R7,500, but salaries were an average of only a couple hundred Rand a month...
 
poffle said:
dad bought a flat near shelly beach for R250,000 --- 2001. Sell it now for R1 mil
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chrisc4290 said:
Dad bought two plots in Scarborough (past Kommetjie) in 1955 for ÂŁ5 each. Yes ÂŁ10 in total. People told him he was mad, no-one lives there, too cold and misty, no electricity, poor road. Same plot today is worth R 1,1m (in theory since that is the going rate). He sold the one in 2001 for R 320 000. I have the other one. Sea view, a bit windy but where isn't this time of year. Council charge me R 165 a month for "services".
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^^ this is depressing :(
 
What's the price of chappies these days?

I remember when I was in primary school coke used to retail for R1.50.
In high school 7 bucks would get you a pie and coke and 1.25l coke use to go for R8(i think), I remember all my friends with pitch in with R1 and we used share a bottle of coke.

1st year of university they use sell extra cans with 110mls extra for R4.50. Anybody remember what those cans where called? the year after that things went pair shaped in a few months coke went from R4.50 to over R5 and that was the small cans to add insult to injury they reduced the size of normal cans to 330ml from 340ml.

What happened during this time why did everything suddenly shoot up in price, I remember everybody was panicking because potatoes was over R100 a pocket
 
The_Librarian said:
Heard that most of the dairy and meat farmers will be withdrawing as they're not getting the price they want on their products.

Which is understandable - they cannot work with a loss - less income than expenditure.
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Ja, I talked to a milk farmer friend of mine. He said that he is only getting +/- R2 per litter of milk. He's barely making a profit. He got sheep as well, he gets about R20 to R30 a kilo. I saw Pick and Pay sold mutton for R80+ per kilo.
 
beans100 said:
Ja, I talked to a milk farmer friend of mine. He said that he is only getting +/- R2 per litter of milk. He's barely making a profit. He got sheep as well, he gets about R20 to R30 a kilo. I saw Pick and Pay sold mutton for R80+ per kilo.
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Actually is sad hey,think some farmers want to bring back the errr 'milk board' or something similar to regulate the prices.
 
I can't believe how much a beer at the Fireman's Arms in Cape Town costs!!! R35 for a draught. It's a freaking rip-off. Most other places are around R20...
 
genetic said:
I can't believe how much a beer at the Fireman's Arms in Cape Town costs!!! R35 for a draught. It's a freaking rip-off. Most other places are around R20...
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I went to Primis a while back to get some take away and while waiting I had two hansas (normal bottles), R15.50 each! That's almost what I pay for a draught elsewhere...
 
poffle said:
dad bought a flat near shelly beach for R250,000 --- 2001. Sell it now for R1 mil
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Um, my Dad bought a flat in Shelly Beach in 1974 for R10 grand and sold it in 2002 for R1 million. :D
That's 100 times it's value! :p
 
Nicodeamus said:
My mom use to give me R5 for school in 1997/8 I use to buy 1 packet of chips and 1 cocke with it. I had 50c left.

in 1999 she gave me R5 and I no longer had 50 c left.

I saw the other day that a price for a coke is about R8 and for a packet of chips around R5..
So it is R13 :(
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I used to get a packet of chips and a cool drink for less than 5 cents in Grade 1 and Grade 2!

Yissie, am I really that old???
 
Garyvdh said:
I used to get a packet of chips and a cool drink for less than 5 cents in Grade 1 and Grade 2!

Yissie, am I really that old???
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ou Ballie :P. I heard that some parents give their kids on average R15 for snoepie money nowadays.
 
Slootvreter said:
A Castle Draught at that time was between R8 and R10 ;)
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yeah, keg had a special in 2000, where a 2 litre jug of castle draught was R20...
i was fairly sick on that.

vodka was also around R32 back then (smirnoff)
sits around R70 - R80 now
 
gregmcc said:
In '88 a nandos burger meal cost R6.95, today it costs R39.95 (last time I checked)
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2001 nandos strips and rice was R19.95
today its R38.95

swines are making my favourite meal expensive

Im trying to think what a quarter pounder meal costed back then?
Im sure it hasnt increased as much as nandos has
 
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