<--- Eish Maaaan! The true reason why some 'pubic' servants want more money!!!!????!!!!No I have not been on any strike action - people often mistake my employment with the SABC equals me being a public servant - the difference is I work more than a public servant and earn less even before govt gives the unions their increases...
Hospitals being blockaded and teachers being shot at- Welcome back to the real South Africa. A month and a few days after the World Cup closing ceremony we are now back to what we call NORMAL! Okay- without arguing the merits of the strike action lets get a little mathematical -
If a worker earns R6500 per month the 6.5% offer gives them R227.50 more as apposed to the 8.6% demand that would give them R559.00 extra per month....the gap R136.50. Add the gap in the housing allowance increase (R620.00 = 24%)vs demand (R1000.00 = 100%) of R380.00 and you have a monthly difference of R516.50. So if the R6500.00 per month earner strikes for 1 week they stand to loose R 1625.00........therefore for every week they strike, they absorb 3.15 months of increased earnings. Am I correct so far?
The total increase based on a R6500.00 per moth salary, plus a R500.00 per month housing allowance currently being received would be R542.50. That is a 7.75% - now this is far above the current inflation which was around 4.6%!!!
When last did YOU get an increase of this nature?
So the striking workers can be fired according to our prez JZ. What utter hogwash - the wheels which turn his highly profitable business called South Africa will be fired? Get real! If they stop working who will work to feed the mouths of his wives and children? Oh maybe the billion rand deal his son Duduzane has is enough and the prez can see himself out of office at the end of his term?
This blog does not belong to IOL or the Mail & Guardian or any other established media house- so will the media tribunal shut it down? Hell Yes... for the brutal honesty we share here, we need not wait for govt to pass legislature! However, until such time- we will continue to view our country in the unusual demented truthful way we do...
Media Tribunal to gag reporting akin to Apartheid - well its nothing new in the new SA seeing as though the BEE policy has been for the sole benefit of one race!
Fiona Coyne finally became the Weakest Link when she was found dead in her home by her domestic or was it dead in her car? Well there were all sorts of media reports - a suspected suicide or otherwise, police at keeping mum about the details surrounding her death. To her family, condolences - to her victims on the show... she was nothing like that in person!
From parliament talking about the growing number of poor white South Africans to the SAHRC asking govt to put the interests of the country first- it seems like its been an all negative week all round! Such a pity when the focus this month should have been on women!
And there was pain in Spain as well -At least 30 people were injured when the bull scaled the perimeter fence and tore through the crowd in Tafalla, in the state of Navarra, sending spectators fleeing for their lives.
From bulls to bull headed govt officials and unionists - its time for somebody to bully the system, hit the restart button and let the kid get back to school!!!
Peace
