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XhosaNostra:
There's a gym right around the corner from my place, but I never thought of joining. It's just not my thing. If things get out of hand with my girth, I'll try something dancing or something lol. You should join to build the little abs you have started growing

Those little abs are fading slowly because of the lockdown.Nothing much to do but abuse food if you spend most of your time indoors lol.


Look what a resourceful neighbour gave me - a full pack of Pall Mall

XhosaNostra:
I guess we should be saying, [b]"We're led" [/b]right now lol. He certainly has shown great leadership, I'm proud of him.

Monate nate! Eish, I'm even beginning to salivate
By the time this thing is over, I'll binge on fastfood for a while, I'm sick of home cooked meals.
What do you miss most about a life before corona?

@bolded, the "red sea" will sue us if we used their cultish mantra.

Be careful not to get fat while binging lol.
I miss my routine walks to the mall as part of my daily exercise.I almost joined a gym before the announcement of lockdown

XhosaNostra:
I wonder how long it will take to reach there, my Chicken Licken wings cravings are on nyaope levels

We may have to endure another month,or even longer than that...I'm not complaining anyhow.Ramaphosa has impressed me in handling this pandemic

Those wings are to die for,neh?

XhosaNostra:
Yeah, I just watched the address. Finally the nightmare is over. I miss takeaways as well

He made no mention of takeaways,perhaps that will be allowed when we get to lockdown level 3.

Mfana! K'sebenza amaLevel manje

XhosaNostra:
LMAO. Wow. I bet he's doing so well now. Which reminds me of one guy I went to school with. His back was a little hunched & many boys in our class bullied him, calling him names like "Backbone" Today he's working for the Reserve Bank, while one of his bullies drives an uber

Well anyway, his family is okay & the other boys were also from respectable families, so I really don't think they were using him or anything lol. But you could never know though. Perhaps there was something he was useful for. Shrugs.

Cigarettes will be back on the shelves from the first of May

XhosaNostra:
Looooool, is that so? For a while my cousin was running around with a tough crowd & one time his crew was rounded up, accused of a heinous crime. Somehow I just knew he wasn't involved because he's not the type. In the end it was proven that he indeed went home when his friends were up to no good. He's very gentle & in a way how he was raised paid off. I sometimes wonder how he fitted in with such a group of hardened thugs to begin with.

There are exceptions of course,but it's usually so.Is your cousin from a high income earning household? sometimes boys can take you in and overlook your fragile character just because you bring something bigger to the table .Back when I was in primary there used to be this weak guy who couldn't throw a punch to save his life,so in order to stop bullies from preying on him he pledged a lunchbox to some big guy named Given in exchange for protection.

XhosaNostra:
Yes, I was the baby of the family but more like an only child because my sister lived with my aunt, hence my mom doted on me so much. It had its perks, but was also very annoying at times.

LMAO, I know. One of my aunts has 3 daughters & one son (last born), they all treated him like a porcelain doll, which angered his father so much because he felt they were pussifying him He's still a little soft even now. As children (we're only two years apart) we were both crybabies

I see



No male should allow that lol.A man's honour & integrity is defended in the streets,not behind mommy's dress.Your peers won't even consider your input in conversations because to them you are not man enough.

XhosaNostra:
She was very overprotective I have many similar stories throughout my childhood, but this one stands out the most because I was really looking forward to it.
One time my friends & I were playing with a skipping rope. One of my friends stepped on the back of my shoe by mistake while we were skipping & the sole came off. I had to take off the shoe so her father could fix it. Mind you at this point I have never been without shoes (outside of the house) my whole life because my mom didn't like that So anyway, my friends were laughing at me because I didn't wanna put my foot on the dirt, that's when I realized that perhaps I was a little too sheltered lol.

Are you the last born in the family? If so then it makes perfect sense,and you're a female on top of that.Parents are very overprotective when it comes to girls.Now put a boy in the same scenario and what you get is an effeminate sissy lol.

XhosaNostra:
Not being allowed to do stuff or go anywhere was the worst for me.

I remember I was supposed to attend a friend's birthday one Saturday. The day came & I was so excited. I literally hopped like a bunny on my way to take a bath. I was ready to slay them in my frilly, pink dress & white stockings. I had everything planned out. That beaming smile quickly turned to tears when my mom told me I couldn't go because "it was windy". Inside I was like so what, what does the weather have to do with anything. Before I could protest, she quickly explained that the area where my friend lived was surrounded by shacks, so she was afraid that one of their roofs would come off due to the wind & chop me in half. What an overactive imagination! That was the final verdict. So I couldn't go because I could get killed by someone's roof of all things! Some people went & noone died

Mama just didn't want baby to eat the cake.Very unfair.

TMKsouth:
It's ridiculous, I know. And they say it with such certainty, like they know everything about anything South African. But we have to keep on checking them, otherwise their lies will spread like wildfire.

It's out of jealousy and frustrations,not certainty.Deep down they don't believe what they say.

If things were perfect under Apartheid then why did Nigerians have to wait until after 1994 to start coming to South Africa? I mean according to them South Africa is deteriorating under the ANC,so what are they doing here?

Mind you even with the corruption of current ANC MPs South Africa is still ahead of the rest of Africa,whether they want to accept or not.

TMKsouth:
@bolded

You don't know what you talking about!

White people only gave themselves electricity, tarred roads and pavements, quality everything. 80% of the population just got the basics or nothing at all.

Yes, there are issues with power generation today but also consider that most of SA is now on the grid, and quality services have been extended to ALL PEOPLE in the country.

Those complaining and yearning for white rule are the ones who most benefitted from the system and had never set foot in black areas to witness the misery apartheid put people in.

You don't think Nigerians or black Africans were mishandled by white policemen during apartheid? It was even worse coz they acted with impunity and black people could not get justice.

Again, you don't know what you are talking about. Stop deceiving people, you know ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about South Africa.

TMK! you thinks it will ever sink in? every South African on NL has gone through all these hamster wheel arguments with Nigerians about South African history,politics and whatever else.But guess what! they are still in elementary phase because their skulls are too thick to be penetrated by the tutelage.Imagine a Nigerian is telling you that you had it good under Apartheid,you? the person who lived it or at least know people who lived the harsh reality of it all? ...what a derisive utterance

Austine1212:
Goes strait into accounts not as food parcels

Great!

zhike:
is 2 different things, there is food parcels for poor families and government grant for unemployed individuals.

Thanks

E go know me well.

He may not be the most erudite politician under the sun but you just gotta love this guy.Straight shooter,no mixed signals,expresses his true thoughts no matter how unpopular they may be.Such men are endangered species in this PC times we live in.



Salute!!!..

vandalZA:
It will be funded in part by international finance institutions and by redirecting funds already allocated in the current budget.
The main interventions announced on Tuesday are:
R20 billion directly for fighting the pandemic. This includes spending on protective equipment for healthcare workers, additional ventilators, staffing, medicine, field hospitals and community screening.
R20 billion for municipalities for the provision of emergency water supplies, sanitising public transport facilities as well as feeding and housing the homeless.
R50 billion towards new grants, grant top-ups and other measures to relieve social distress.
R100 billion for the protection of jobs and job creation.
R40 billion for income support payments for workers whose employers cannot pay wages.
R2 billion to assist spaza shop owners and small businesses.
A R200 billion loan guarantee scheme from the banks, National Treasury and SA Reserve Bank.
R70 billion in tax relief schemes for distressed businesses.
In addition, taxpayers who donate to the Solidarity Fund will be able to claim 10% as a percentage of their taxable income.
'Devastating' impact on economy
Ramaphosa said the government's "urgent and dramatic steps" taken to stop Covid-19 have saved tens of thousands of lives, and were "absolutely necessary".
But, he added, this was having a devastating effect on the economy.
There are fears this will be enough to tip economically vulnerable households below the poverty line.
Some estimates have put the total damage to the economy as a result of the Covid-19 lockdown at a downturn of between 6 to 8%, with a million job losses.
READ | Unemployed will get R2 100 each in Covid-19 payouts over 6 months, children R2 800 extra
A 2018 study found only a quarter of South Africans can be considered middle class or of the elite class, while the rest either live in poverty or close to it. The same study found three out of four children under the age of 15 live in poverty.
Protests over food shortages have already been seen across the country, and the SA Social Security Agency is currently overwhelmed with applications for food parcels, receiving 9 000 calls an hour.
Grants and relief for impoverished
Civil society has been vocal in its call for greater relief, especially for the unemployed and informally employed.
So perhaps the most significant measure introduced by Ramaphosa was the use of the existing social security infrastructure to distribute millions of rand to the poorest in society via grants.
A number of institutions, academics, activists and economists had called for some form of a grant, either in the form of a new grant, a top-up of the child support grant or all grants, or the distribution of cash to the poorest in society.
Ramaphosa appears to have adopted all of these suggestions which include:
A six-month temporary coronavirus grant.
An increase of the child support grant of R300 in May and R500 from June to October.
An extra R250 for other grant beneficiaries for the next six months.
A Covid-19 social relief of distress grant of R350 per month for six months for unemployed people who do not receive any other grant or Unemployment Insurance Fund payment.
The roll-out of vouchers and cash transfers to those in need for food assistance.
The distribution of 250 000 food parcels in the next two weeks (a partnership between the Solidarity Fund, NGOs, community-based organisations and the Department of Social Development).
Funding
The R500 billion plan will be financed by R130 billion that will be reprioritised from the current budget.

I need more details on the bolded .I heard some people say it comes as a food voucher instead cash.How true is this?

He should have baptised him with a boot up his rectum before handcuffing the idiot.

WTF did I just read

What a continent!

TMKsouth:
Ja, it's tough. But we'll get thru it man. With money in people's pockets, food in their stomachs and data in their phones we can survive Covid.

Awe

TMKsouth:
Lol ;

You wanna die of corona just coz u wanted to go to the movies or Chicken Licken?!

Lol not that.I just want life to go back to what it was before Corona.

TMKsouth:
Definitely there'll be an extension. Otherwise, why throw all this cash at people? They wanted the stipends to sink in for a couple of days before announcing a 3 month extension.

73 000 more soldiers to be deployed. I no longer see the difference between us and the people doing time for crime.

TMKsouth:
DUDE, YOU'RE RIGHT, BUT FOR THE UNEMPLOYED.

Big ups to Rama anyhow.The guy is trying,even though some insatiable individuals are already complaining.I mean every free money is good money.

XhosaNostra:
I just watched his speech & he didn't say anything about an extension. It was all about the Randelas. However, he'll be making another one this coming Thursday, he said. We should brace ourselves.

I don't want another extention.This shìt is getting harder to bear

XhosaNostra:
No, I wasn't. Will catch it later online before I go to sleep. It'd be nice to have some pocket change lol.

Yep! I'm never running out of data ever again.

TMKsouth:
Not sure. I think it's just social grant beneficiaries, they are adding to the grant over the next 3 months. So that u tell u the lockdown is not ending anytime soon, Michael Jackson.

Check again.


I fear people will protest the lockdown orders should the president breathe a single word about extention.

XhosaNostra:
Really? How & when?

I'm still gathering details on how that is to be applied for .Weren't you listening to his speech? ...we're caking baby

TMKsouth:
Glad it did

Did I just hear the president say every South African is gonna get free R350? I'm starting to like this guy.

Wtf.They look like they were in the oven lol

DriggityDre:
Hmmm..you have a point. But what attracts me to them is actually their bad@ss attitude
About the chinese movies, yes, I remember them. I have some on my devices, eg;
Fist of Legend (1994) starring Jet Li
Enter the Dragon (1973) starring Bruce Lee
These two actually had some good plots. Not all are mediocre.

Enter the Dragon is the only Bruce Lee movie I can stomach.1973 was the year he died,not so?

XhosaNostra:
Hahaha. That's because I'm in a chirpy mood

Alright, I'm just glad I heard it the little flu I had is gone now.

XhosaNostra:
Ok, I just received it lol. Let the eardrums bleed

You sound like a teenager.Your voice is smooth.

XhosaNostra:
Check for where?

Your WhatsApp?