Jasmine Uys, Alicedale
Amidst all the bad news, there is a little bit of good news. For the second month in a row, the price of petrol came down.
While that is very good news, the bad news is that everything else went up, especially food prices.
What I don't understand is this: when the price of petrol goes up, they blame the petrol price for the rising cost of living, yet when the petrol price comes down, food prices don’t come down. Why? And it's not as if it goes up every month, no, it goes up every week, while more and more people struggle just to survive every day.
More good news is that we have less load shedding lately. So what changed? Is it because we have a minister of electricity now?
We can only hope that it's not because the election is around the corner and that after the election we are back to stage 6 or even stage 8 again. We can only hope.