The Independent on Saturday

Money in our pockets

- From: MS MOORAD

I DON’T believe anything these so-called experts say.

The intelligen­t-sounding gibberish coming from analysts, economists, etc, justifies the blatant robbery of citizens’ wealth by banks and the government.

If Cyril Ramaphosa is so good for South Africa, I want to see petrol come down to about R5 a litre and food prices reduced by at least 50% across the board for as long as he is our president.

Data prices should also come down – 5GB for R100, valid for a month – that’s a fair deal.

I suppose that’s a huge conflict of interest for Ramaphosa since he owns shares in MTN and the SEACOM undersea internet cables, among his numerous holdings.

We are expected to rejoice that the rand is stronger but then we are told that we “don’t understand” when ordinary citizens want to see this stronger rand translate into clear and visible changes.

We want to see more money in our pockets at the end of the month and more permanent jobs created.

By the way, when the ANC was unbanned, all these fat-cat politician­s we have today came into power with nothing, but now they are wealthy and successful business people.

Who are the people behind them who made all this possible and what do you think is their intention for doing this?

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