Build us toilets, bring down taxes, stop crime, South Africans plead as election takes centre stage | Fin24
As the nation marks its sixth democratic elections, South Africans are still pleading for government to tend to their basic needs.
"No one is making money on Election Day," he said. The shop serves the nearby community with basics like bread, snacks and cooldrinks. A customer comments that everyone who comes into the shop likely lives nearby and that there would not be unusual traffic on Election Day. Her concern is that taxes are so high, that taxpayers can't even afford to send their own children to university because they're already paying too much, she told Fin24.Ebrahiem Brenner, who rents space to sell clothes outside a Shoprite in Gatesville, said he planned to vote as soon as the retailer closed at 14:00. He said there had hardly been any business.
Sharifa Cloete, a vegetable vendor, said she wants government to increase pensions, because R1 700 is not enough.
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