Could you live in south africa IF this was your daily routine?

Question

- Supermarkets were empty; when they got stocked up your only allowed 1 item per family.

- You have to have contacts everywhere to get the basic things, they are a necessity.

- Prices can change anything up to three times a day.

- You have to do RTGS transfers (Electronic money transfer) but often the signal on the phones is down so it doesn't go straight through, then the supplier will again want a top-up.

- 3x20lts engine oil and 3x20lts hydraulic is Z$1,500,000,000,000 (if you can find it that is)

- Diesel costs Z$8 billion a litre

- Bread is Z$1 billion

- Z$3,650,000,000: US$1 and Z$450,000,000 : R1

- Deposit of $300 billion to secure a place in a school.

- Load-shedding from 6am that can stay off till 10pm or 11pm.

-Generator runs on petrol which you can't get

Answer 1

It is really bad isn't it. You know, one thing that irks me is that people in the UK, which nation handed power over to Mugabe knowing full well what sort he was, seem to think that the 1980 election was fair! It was anything but fair and yet Mrs Thatcher shook his hand and Prince Charles was at his inauguration all the same.

Answer 2

SA has plenty of everyday problems, but not the ones you mentioned.   Houses have razor wire fences, large dogs, the owners have to have guns.  For white people after dark, the streets are a No-Go area.   Zimbabwe is a disaster....What did the Zimbabwe people use before they had candles............Answer - Electricity!

Answer 3

You are not talking about the Republic of  South Africa, but Zimbabwe, yes, its a very bleak situation. The problem goes back to 1980, the indigenous population voted a school teacher ( Mugabe) into power, that man is reputed to be the 6th richest man in the world.The country, once  called the "Breadbasket" of Africa, now more aptly named the "Dust-bowl". The black people believed his rhetoric and are now paying the price, of course, at home we had "New Labour" come to power just over a decade ago, and we are now being rudely awakened !

Answer 4

Only if I am an ostrich with my head in the sand.

This is not living.

Answer 5

Never

but there again i thnk u r pathetic :S

Answer 6

No I wouldn't, I would certainly move, but I wouldn't move to the same country that everyone else is moving to, then I wouldn't be accepted as people of that country would be fed up of my nationality.

I'm South African and I gather you are talking about Zimbabwe.