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Gauteng residents during e-toll strike
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I was shocked with what happened last week where most South Africans decided to protest against the idea of the newly established
e-tolling system in the Gauteng province. This issue is controversy because most people do not agree with the newly established e-toll system. Labour brokers are accused of being thieves and this comes after one of the comements by
Mashudu Munyai "
labour brokers are thieves they took 50% of your peanuts thats not fair i support you Vavi please give us feedback thereafter...", After the
COSATU General Secretary, Zwelinzima Vavi explained to them the main reason as to why they are actually protesting: This comment made me wonder as to why people think that their brokers are thieves and that if they are going to pay tax and e-tolls they will be paying a double tax, which can result to many people being broke and facing a serious economic recession, because their families will be poor and the monthly income they get won't be enough to settle their mothly budgets.
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The tolling debate is on prospectives; the fuel levies would never have been suffient and people want to call it TAX. It depends on you see this, wether its second TAX of just robbery to South Africans. The Strike took place almost half of the country, for Durban, Johannesburg and Cape Town to name just a few. Now lets ask ourselves, is the Gauteng province or government trying to take control over the taxpayers' salaries or just to violate residents rights? In a communication perspective this is not a good publicity for South Africa especially after the strike costed the country billions of rands due to strike since most businessesess were closed. Sooner or later, if things go this way, this country will face serious economic strains.
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Protesting is not going to change anything,people need to think of a more civilised way of addressing problems and expressing themselves.
ReplyDeleteYeah you right, but if people do not protest to voice out their opinions or stand up for their rights, government will take advantage of them, and you know what that means, that means that more problems will erupt, therefore if they protest at least its acknowledged that people don't like government's systems
DeleteProtesting in South Africa is part of our calture, south Africans if they do not agree with something for them to communicate they just go to the street(protest) and damage evrything.
ReplyDeleteyes you right man, the protesting thing in South Africa has become a habit and when you realise that the people who protest are all blacks which is not good or fair at all and one thing you should always remember is that even thogh Whites don't agree with something they know that Africans will protest for them and thats just a waste of time
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