So last week it gets announced that government is probably going to agree to Eskom putting their prices up by 45% every year for the next 3 years! I am not gonna lie to you, that’s pretty nuts! Electricity is already pretty damn expensive, and now they want to throw that at us, all the with excuse being ‘to fund a new and better power supply’ but I would take a R10 bet that just as toll gates are designed to pay for road construction costs… once that road is paid for they simply do not remove the toll gate and thus it becomes another form of taxation! So my guess is, eskom will put the prices up… build new power stations… line some pockets in the process, and then never drop the price back to its original… thus becoming another form of taxation!!!
So anyway! That was last week, and this week the government decides to try and make all its citizens forget that bad news by baiting us with the idea that they are fighting for us by asking the cellphone company’s to drop their rates! 
Yes thank you that would be nice… but has no one noticed that this is how our government operates! They hit us with some pretty crappy news… or seriously nasty news and then try to smooth over that damage and hide the media fuss by creating another exciting story which has a ‘more’ positive spin!
Its basically two steps back… one step forward!!
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