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Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Dubai Journal 3 - What the hell!


So let me get this straight: avocados are indigenous to South Africa. They grow on the KwaZulu Natal coast. So how is it that I can buy them for R11 a kilogram in the Middle East, but I pay R5.95 for ONE measly bruised little avo in PicknPay at Rosebank??? What a farce! It would be funny if it wasn't so sick, and if thousands of people in SA weren't starving to death.

How can they say that the economy is coming right when we can't even sell our own food in our own country at the same price that they can half way around the world???

1 Comments:

Blogger dori said...

I know - it's the same in London or Toronto... amazing looking fruit imported from SA selling at half the price!

4:58 pm  

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