Vox Pop:How is the increasing cost of living affecting you?
With the recent strikes for wage increases, the Advertiser asked the community how the petrol and food inflation has affected them, and if their salary matches the increasing cost of living.
Ruth Pakati says: “I’m self-employed, and so it really affects me. I can’t go anywhere without first calculating how much petrol I am going to consume. As a business owner you are prepared that stock prices will go up every year, but petrol goes up every second month so you can’t even plan for it.”
With the recent strikes for wage increases, the Advertiser asked the community how the petrol and food inflation has affected them, and if their salary matches the increasing cost of living.
Ruth Pakati says: “I’m self-employed, and so it really affects me. I can’t go anywhere without first calculating how much petrol I am going to consume. As a business owner you are prepared that stock prices will go up every year, but petrol goes up every second month so you can’t even plan for it.”
Conrad Britz says: “A trolley isn’t a trolley anymore, for the price you used to pay for a full trolley worth of groceries you now only get half or a quarter trolleys worth of groceries. Meanwhile, your salary increases by two or three per cent and petrol increases by 13 to 14 per cent.”
Joey Woodborne says: “It’s ridiculous, when petrol goes up, everything goes up, and when petrol goes down, everything stays up. As a business owner, you don’t even get a salary increase.”
Gwen Janse van Rensburg says: “It’s terrible; the food and petrol increases are unbelievable. We need more specials at supermarkets, because salaries are decreasing.”
Frans Legodi says: “Taxi fare is also going up and the transport that takes our children to school is going up, everything is going up. Meanwhile, salaries are going down, I’m working for nothing, it affects us all. If only strikes could be avoided, because they also contribute to the chaos.”
Jacobus Batt says: “It weighs heavily on us, especially if you’re a pensioner. Everything just goes up and everything is just expensive, we can’t survive.”
Johan van der Mescht says: “You can’t afford to buy food and pour petrol; you have to earn a minimum salary of ten thousand rand to have a decent living.”
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