A country's prosperity is noted by its growing economy. In SA, the economy progression is not met year in and year out. Where is the labour minister, what is his job?
Democracy does not allow government to be dictated to by a party. The party stands for its own constituency, not for the people of the country as a whole. In a democracy, there is nothing like a ruling party – if noted it can be called a majority party.
The prices of oil and other commodities are forever on the increase around the whole world. In SA the oil price increase is used as an excuse to increase the petrol price so that all commodity prices will increase.
The SA parliament does not consider or deliberate on pensioner issues during its meetings. Even opposition parties do not show an interest in the plight of pensioners but come election time they’ll be running around seeking the pensioners for their votes. Municipalities have a rebate on services for pensioners.