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I am generally quite a positive guy, things don't really get me down.

Except life in South Africa. Let me explain. I am one of the privileged few in this country who was born with a brain, so it means I am able to hold a steady job and pay my way. Now the government has decided that they want to impose a "salary cap", which means that people such as myself will never be able to earn more than a predetermined amount.

Guess how many houses will be left empty. No extra points for those that could predict mass closures of multiple companies and the bankruptcy of most, if not all, financial institutions due a large debt deficit.

But wait, there's more. They want us to pay 1% of our salaries to the SABC – The useless chops that supposedly decide what's on TV tonight. We already pay a TV license, and have to sit through hours' worth of adverts daily that I thought were the sources of their income.

And don't forget that we are the only country in the world to implement a toll road system on inner city roads. Roads that the taxpayer had funded. And now we need to pay more money for the privilege of using a road that we paid for in the first place. Nice. Just to get pulled over by some retarded traffic officer that wants to impound your car or bike when there's nothing wrong with it, so that they can extort you for a bribe just so you can be on time for work. Which, by the way, you only do to ensure that the civil servants get pretty much every last sent of your hard earned cash.

And when you do eventually get home, you have huge electricity bills to worry about, a sewage system that just sees tonnes of the squatter camp's refuse flow out onto your lawn, and schools with teachers in them that have no interest in teaching, they would much rather dance in the streets and demand more money, so you know your kids are getting the very best education.

Then you attempt to cook dinner from an empty pantry, because the shop attendants are on strike too so you can't buy anything. Not that you can afford it in any case, considering the average shopping cart for a family of 4 is around the R2500 mark per month (excluding luxury items such as meat) whereas the average income per household is around R3500 per month.

All the while the fat cat "officials" sit on some jumbo jet with their entire families on a taxpayer funded shopping spree to Paris.

I fucking love this country.

Random thought: If sex is a pain in the ass, you're doing it wrong.