'SHARP' MEANS 'THUMBS UP' IN SOUTH AFRICA

Social media is abuzz after some people found it weird that just opposite the popular retailer Shoprite on Robert Sobukwe street in Sunnyside, Pretoria, there is a store named Sharprite.

While some see it as “pushing your luck” due to the familiarity, some think the competition between Shoprite and Sharprite is welcomed.

TimesLIVE visited both supermarkets on Wednesday.

As one stands outside the door of Sharprite and looks on the “sharp right” turn, opposite the street you find Shoprite.

Inside Sharprite, the store boasts about eight aisles stocked with everything from sugar, bedding essentials to water taps. But what sets the store apart from Shoprite is that many of their products are offered in bulk.

Sharprite also has no fridges in store so there are no refrigerated items in stock.

During TimesLIVE’s visit to the store, a man who wanted to buy a cold drink turned back empty-handed after inquiring about the fridge aisle for the drinks and he was told there are no fridges there.

Besides sounding similar, there are other similarities between the two shops. Both have their names written in bold red, Shoprite has a white outline to its text. Sharprite also has a big yellow smiling emoji in front, displaying a ‘sharp’ or thumbs-up gesture.

A bottle of 2l cooking oil at Sharprite starts from as little as R43.99 [vs R59.99 Ritebrand Sunflower Seed Oil 2L at Shoprite], while a carton of six milk 1lt boxes starts from as little as R89.99 [Ritebrand R98.99]. A 10kg bag of flour costs R127.99 at Sharprite, while similar flour of the same size costs a few cents more at Shoprite at R129.99.

While in the area, TimesLIVE noticed that a lot of the foot traffic is at the Shoprite as people buy daily essentials, including cold drinks and water. A few people also entered Sharprite to buy tools and other essentials.

While Shoprite, which is one of Africa’s leading brands is owned by South African, Christo Wiese, TimesLIVE understands that Sharprite is Chinese-owned.
The store has extended its reach from Pretoria and is also found in Middelburg, Mpumalanga province.

https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2024-02-14-its-just-a-sharp-right-turn-from-sharprite-to-shoprite/

BobbieZion:
South Africa 58.
Na Dem want try us.

Who was having heart attacks? It certainly wasn't SA🇳🇬👎🏾

God1000:
well, I'm not surprised by your comment because you are a south African, you guys are filled with so much hatred for Nigerians but your opinion is inconsequential and insignificant to us.

The lady has spoken the Truth, so don't kill yourself because of what she said.

Who are the White worshippers here? Some of us think highly of ourselves, I've been actively criticizing the massacre of innocent women and children everyday in Gaza conflict by Israel

So much for inconsequential and insignificant, you're the one who mentioned South Africans (unprovoked). We're not the ones who were having heart attacks at the scare of been beaten by SA at Afcon - no heart attacks against CIV 🇳🇬👎🏾

Lawag3:


In Germany and Canada the unemployment rate is low their work force is relatively old so we get that they need immigrants. Yours is the opposite

Does South Africa not have many high skilled workers. Or are sans not interested in high skilled jobs.

If you had read the article probably you would've noticed the president said there's a mismatch between what tertiary institutions are offering and what the advancing world of work requires, and that this is being addressed but in the meantime there's a need to fill the gap with the necessary skilled foreigners.

And last time I checked Nigeria's unemployment rate is as high as SA's - don't be fooled by Tinubu claiming it dropped from 30%+ to 8% in just 6 months. Whatever intentions to cast South Africans as dumb apply to you too.

God1000:
If not for our bad leaders, Nigeria should've been the greatest black nation on earth by now.


Other Africans still admire us despite our many challenges.

You see south Africans and Ghanians trolling us everyday on social media because they feel intimidated by us.

Did you create Nairaland so you guys can lie to yourselves each and everyday? Why would SA or Southern Africa want to be colonised or be intimated by a bunch of white worshippers who will sell out the continent to Israel and the US at the first opportunity like they sold their ancestors into slavery🇳🇬?

The signs are already there Nigerians themselves long to be colonised because 60 years of independence has brought them nothing but severe underdevelopment - thats why every second word they utter licks white bums. That Kenyan lady, if she even exists, should speak for herself.

Lawag3:


Do not insult, be mature in this conversation.

From your national stats you've guys have a large number of unemployment or unemployed youths. Why not give this jobs to them.

Although I think I have an answer to that question because a South African told me that your government prefers competence and qualification to familiarity of you get what I mean.

So if that's the case are there no qualified and competent South African.

Because the some SANS believe that the lack of job is caused by foreigners who are taking these jobs.

I already explained this with example of Germany and Canada. We're talking about high skills jobs here - as you know SA's economy is the most advanced & globally connected in Africa. Even the US's tech industry is dominated by the smartests brains from around the world.

The SA president is not calling for people who gonna sell jollof on the streets, and i don't see anywhere he begged Nigerians or low skilled people to come over.

When you have very little to boast about as a country you then begin to make up stories that afcon had 2 billion views bcoz your country made it to the finals.

I listened to the BBC analysis of the views and its because of the unpredictable nature of the tournament from day 1, and the fairytale stories. Even from the beginning of the tournament Asian audiences were complaining that the BBC favoured afcon over the Asian Cup.

Every other unsubstantiated claim is a figment of people's hungry imagine, since they cant eat aftobeats - the only thing they can boast of.

CandidAdmin:
MzansiCoolio
You have to stop insulting everyone if you want them to change the view they have about you guys.

Back to the topic, why do I need to work from home in SA? Why can't I just work from my country?
Or I'm I missing something?
Is my understanding wrong?

I'm not sure about that. Right now i have more pressing issues - to destroy Generator Republic trolls

Ekeneegwu:


For real this bloodletting fool really thinks he is up to the task … hey black hating midget ask your bald self why SA ladies can’t get enough of we Nigerians … cursed generation of depressed fools get a life and keep Nigerian names of your impotent lips

Google says 1MW of electricity (150th grid collapse) divided between 250 million people equals 4.E-9. Only Nepa and Generator Republicans understand this sort of mathematics 🇳🇬💩💩💩💩

Fira09:

A gay superior to a straight being? Fr? Lmao😂😂 There's is nothing I won't here from HIV carriers and distributors.

Bye for today.

Straight guy with 1MW of electricity?🇳🇬 You're inferior dude. Here's the emoji that best describes you 💩💩💩💩💩

Fira09:

I thought you even have points, only repeating the same shit all over.

Sincerely I can't be going back and forth with a weakling of a gay, a worthless gay that can't stand me physically.

Go have a heart attack - it's your thing as Generator Republicans 🇳🇬💩 when faced with far superior South Africans 🇿🇦🏆

Fira09:

You are such an uncircumcised daft dumbo, you don't even understand my point, you are the one claiming the HIV country, South Africa has a stable electricity whilst you and I know you and your entire lineage leaves in darkness for infinity days.

But you keep repeating this false shit, it may seem the HIV symptoms have affected the thinking part of your decayed brain.💩🇿🇦💩🇿🇦💩

Do u even produce the generators that are the quintessential soundtrack to Japageria?🇳🇬👎🏾☹️☹️☹️ Last time i heard you guys can't even produce a pencil or toothpick - that's why electricity production is rocket science to you 😢😢😢

Rahkman:
shut the Bleep you hiv infected xenophobian, did you hear about usa canada or the uk which have sizeable nigerian population begin to attack the nigerians living there and destroying their buisness? Stupid slowpoke

I'm surprised you have a charged phone since you have 1MW of electricity to share among 250 million people. Grid collapsed for the 150th time in 11 years. Maybe if you didn't sell drugs and scam people in SA you wouldn't be attacked. What serious Nigerian business can you point in SA? Name one 😂😂😂😂😂

Fira09:

Lmao, who cares? Your HIV fellows always complain about electricity being absent for days.

Imagine having 40,000MW of electricity and still don't have light for days, so so pathetic💩🇿🇦💩

Generator Republic has had years - even decades - without electricity 🇳🇬👎🏾💩💩💩💩. Somalia says it's willing to donate 2MW to you guys. Nepa says it's eternally grateful 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

Last time I checked Germany & Canada took in millions of migrants to plug their skills shortage but Japagerian Generator Republicans never called them lazy and insecure. White worshipping is so sad and pathetic 🇳🇬👎🏾💩💩💩💩

Fira09:
Quit the deceit lad, you have 40,000MW of electricity but still don't have electricity for days? Make it make sense? Your fellow HIV victims always complain about 'days without electricity' with sadness in their hearts under every Eskom tweet.

Since blacks started ruling SA💩🇿🇦, your HIV country has gone from 50 to –0.002, bunch of unemployed weird retards.

Google says 1MW of electricity divided between 250 million people equals 4.E-9. Only Nepa and Generator Republicans understand this sort of mathematics 🇳🇬💩💩💩💩

franchasofficia:
Africans should not apply for this yeye visa, let the lazy xenophobic Zulus work and develop their country on their own, they are lucky the white people there made things easy for them, they should stop disturbing the rest of Africans.

If they want more white people to further develop their country, they can head to Netherlands and apply for more Dutchmen to come to their country and live

White worshipping Generator Republican 🇳🇬💩 get mouth. How's Nepa getting along sharing 1MW of electricity between 250 million people? ☹️☹️☹️ With all that oil sha but electricity production is rocket science 😢😢😢

Fira09:

Same old stale lines.

Load shedding will be over by 2025 in SA🇿🇦💩 yen yen yen... But you and your family are still living in darkness with no electricity in 2024, lmao

Your country is just around 70 million but 33% of the population is unemployed, I'm 100% certain you are among the 33% with symptoms of HIV all over your gay body.

We have 40,000MW of electricity, while you have just 1MW. I have 20 hours of power everyday while you only get 20 hours of power in 1 year from Nepa 🇳🇬👎🏾😂😂😂

How completely f-d up does a cow-ntry 🐄🐮 have to be that despite privatization it still only has 1MW of electricity for 250 million people? Generator Republic for real until the year 3000😂😂😂😂

Fira09:

At least we eliminated your HIV country, same Nwabali owned your AIDS country and bundled them out from the AFCON semifinals.

Look at your fellow HIV carriers from South Africa wailing and grunting like a lost pig under your president's comment section because of the high rate of unemployment, messed up waters, and zero electricity which you try to swindle some Nigerians about.

Loadshedding will be over by 2025 in SA🇿🇦🏆. I don't know about Japageria🇳🇬💩 since last week you only had 1MW to share among 250 million people as the grid collapsed for the 150th time in 11 years despite privatization ☹️☹️☹️😢😢😢💩💩💩💩💩. SA has 40,000MW🇿🇦🏆

Please ask Niger and Somalia nicely to share 3MW of electricity with you 😂😂😂😂

Fira09:

Wailing? That's an obvious FACT.

HIV/AIDS carriers and lies are 1 & 2.🇿🇦💩 The best player of the tournament was a Nigerian and that's the only thing people will remember.

We'll also remember the heart attacks Mamelodi Sundowns FC inflicted on Generator Republic 🇳🇬👎🏾💩

Has Nwabali been signed yet in Europe or he's gonna risk returning to Mzansi?😕😕😕 Tell him Ronwen Williams says 'hi'.🇿🇦🏆

perfectsusanoo:
As per mzansi jorginho? All those mzansi players are uncreative and unprogressive. Their deadliest playa (tau) no even good enough to sit down 4 brighton bench.

You just dissed yourself having heart attacks over an "uncreative and unprogressive" side 🇳🇬💩

Fira09:

Chippa United second division? Mzansi's and deceits.

We will keep calling our European-based players to continue eliminating those HIV/AIDS carriers and distributors from anything related to football .

Keep wailing!🇳🇬💩 We missed you Generator Republicans at the awards ceremony 😢

Fira09:

Ndlovu, You keep repeating this line for the past 1 week due to no reasonable points to prove.

We eliminated the capital of HIV/AIDS in the world(South Africa) from the AFCON and that is the only FACT.

Generator Republic's 🇳🇬💩 European based stars played against a team made entirely by Mamelodi Sundowns FC and struggled, leading to a heart attack pandemic. Our condolences - for the world cup qualifiers we'll field Chippa United instead from the second division 🙏🏽😢

nautybride:

Elephant wey crush eagle ba?

Anyways, African eats everything and have nothing to show for it while the whites will keep, study and make most use of such.

Whites eat wild animals too - they call it "game".

Fira09:

Yet the 'Generator Republic' triumphed against the 'HIV carriers and distributors'.

What happened to 7-0 predictions? Instead you guys were dropping like flies due to heart attacks. Next time we'll field Chippa United - Mamelodi Sundowns FC was too much for you🇿🇦🏆

Fira09:
No one gives a fúck about South African players.

Same players that sent Generator Republic into heart attack mode? 🇿🇦🏆

The news is according to South African outlet The Citizen which stated that the African champions already contacted Sundowns over the possibility of signing their star midfielder.

A source told the publication that Mokoena’s AFCON performances are what caught Al Ahly’s attention, believing in his potential impact.

The 27-year-old has played every single minute in South Africa’s road to the semi-finals of the AFCON, scoring an emphatic winner against Morocco in the round of 16.

The source told The Citizen: “The Egyptians have been watching the Bafana Bafana games very closely, to monitor Percy Tau.

“However, they love what they have seen from Mokoena. They have already spoken to one of the guys in the management (at Sundowns), so now it’s all about making things formal.

“But listen, those guys at Al Ahly are really serious about him, I hope it all works out. I think it would be a good move for him because he has done everything that needs to be done at Sundowns as a player.”

Since January 2022, Mokoena’s journey with Sundowns has seen him evolve into a formidable force, marking a significant transformation.

As negotiations unfold, the fans await the next chapter in the promising career of this 27-year-old midfield talent.

Mzansi (South Africa) needs more skilled foreigners!

This is according to President Cyril Ramaphosa.

In his weekly newsletter on Monday, 12 February, Ramaphosa emphasised the need for more people with the right skills to succeed in an ever-changing global economy.

“This is so that our economy can be competitive, grow and create employment. As a country, we've invested much in producing these skills, from significantly expanding access to higher education, introducing digital programmes in TVET colleges and a shift to a new pay-for-performance approach to skills development.

"However, it will take some time before we'll be able to produce enough skilled people to enable our country to grow rapidly,” Ramaphosa said.

A review report published last year found that South Africa’s available labour supply “does not match demand from companies which are essentially looking to employ management-level personnel, professionals, engineers, technicians, science and maths educators, as well as IT experts”.

The president pointed out that many of these high-level skills must be sourced internationally, at least in the short-term.

Last week, the Department of Home Affairs published four public comment draft amendments to existing immigration regulations that will significantly boost efforts to attract workers with critical skills to Mzansi.

The draft amendments deal with two visa categories: a remote working visa and the critical skills visa.

“The introduction of a remote working visa responds to the rapidly evolving world of work, where increasing numbers of skilled workers, notably in the tech industry, are attracted by the lifestyle benefits of working from a remote location,” Ramaphosa said.

He added that it also caters to so-called digital nomads, who are able to work virtually from any location in the world.

A remote worker who wants to work in South Africa while employed by a foreign company will be able to receive such a visa.

Ramaphosa said an efficient, agile, responsive visa regime was key to attracting business investment and boosting economic growth.

“International experience shows that employees with critical skills contribute to improved productivity, enhanced innovation, and improving the competitiveness of the firms they work for,” he said.

In October last year, the Department of Home Affairs released guidelines for corporate employers under a ‘Trusted Employer Scheme’, which will make the visa process easier for large investors and streamline application requirements.

Furthermore, the introduction of a 'Trusted Employer Scheme' aims to simplify the visa process for large investors, making South Africa more appealing for industries like business process outsourcing and customer experience. Ramaphosa cited the country's growing attractiveness as an offshore customer experience delivery destination and the government's investment in supporting the sector's expansion.

The president claimed that the guidelines send a clear signal to business that Mzansi is committed to attracting skills that meet the demands of a modern, inclusive and growing economy.

AfonjaEkiti:
Only pen and paper the xenophobic nyampe sniffing country will be in chaos.


Foolish people chai you tried to fvck with Israel??

Israel

Israel!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣

Gutter pooping Generator Republican, SA won genocide case against Israel at the World Court.

Today Israel's allies are asking it to tread more carefully because SA will be instituting more legal action against those aiding and abetting Israeli genocide in Gaza 🇿🇦🏆

Go wail in your usual gutter pooping spot 💩💩💩

immortalcrown:
One elephant gone. Surplus meat for the village for a moment.

I imagine how the Leopard's case happened.

Meanwhile, what will happen to the retrieved elephant tusks?

I think the government stockpiles the tusks for trade or they get destroyed to combat poaching 🤷🏽‍♂️


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVYFCWFxVu4?si=0JxFl56jyFCnLNfX