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#GEP Episode 009: Toothache, no more E-tolls and Restaurant Bread
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Ever found yourself negotiating with friends over who owes what? I playfully propose a foot race to settle debt in this episode, making for a refreshing take on financial interactions. But it's not all fun and games; I also tackle the serious implications of the government's decision to scrap e-tolls, a victory for motorists that comes with its own set of challenges. As I share my own experiences with the eToll system, I delve into the public's resistance and the government's struggle to fund road infrastructure, making for a conversation as dynamic as the roads we travel.
Then, I get personal, opening up about a recent battle with toothache pain that gave me a whole new level of empathy for anyone who's faced this agony. With an appointment looming, I muse on the importance of oral health and the surprising ways a toothache can throw a wrench into the works of daily life. It's an episode filled with both lighthearted laughs and empathetic insights, and whether you're a toothache veteran or a dental dilettante, you're sure to find a story that resonates with your own life.
Restaurant bread - a culinary delight! Freshly baked, warm, and inviting, it's more than just a side. Restaurant bread is a treasure that deserves our appreciation and food stores need to add them on their shelves - indulge and enjoy!
Join me for a journey from the fast lane of our freeways to the vulnerable moments in a dentist's chair—it's an episode you won't want to miss.
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Toothache Pain
Speaker 1You are listening to the Get Equipped podcast with your host, doxel Kiungu, so good.
Speaker 2Hello, what's happening people? This is your host, doxel Kiungu. I hope you're well, I hope you had a good weekend and I hope your week is going well. So today is the 1st of May. It's a new month. I hope you will have a good start to the month and I wish you a happy new month. Okay, it's May, man. It's already been five months since we started 2024. I hope you can, in retrospect, look at your month, your year, and be like you know what 2024 has been a good year so far, in God's name. Okay, I really hope everything is going your way. I hope you're getting your goals going.
Speaker 2This is the middle of the year, kind of almost June, where you start to look at what you have planned for the year and what you have already achieved, and I hope you can tick a few boxes on that list. All right? So if you were born in the month of May, just know that I've wished you happy birthday, happy birthday to everyone who's born in the month of May. I don't owe you anything anymore. All right, if you know me and if you know me, I know you and you were born in the month of May I've already wished you a happy birthday. I love you and I celebrate you All right. And I celebrate you All right Because I'm tired of forgetting people's birthdays and people get touched, people get mad at me, people get you know. Just know that on the Get A Que podcast, I wish you a happy birthday and if you get mad at me, that means you don't listen to the podcast. That's a deal. So, guys, if you owe anyone money, okay, challenge them to a foot race and whoever wins the race, if you win the race, you're out of debt. I think this is fair from now on, if I owe you money, I'll challenge you to a race, a foot race. If I beat you, hey, I've paid my dues. I think that is fair. Right, guys, today we have a few things to get through.
Speaker 2I'm going to talk about, uh, e-tolls officially being scrapped by the government. If you don't know what e-tolls are, please stay tuned. This is very important. This is very interesting. People look for ways to evade tax, but if the government allows you to evade the tax or scrap the tax from your list, even better for you. This is more important for people who are motorists, people who drive cars. If you drive a car, everyone knows someone who drives a car. So it's good to pass on this such information. Please stay tuned. We'll get deep into the story. Pretty interesting, according to me.
Speaker 2But we get started with toothaches. I'm someone who has never suffered from teeth issues. My teeth are pretty good, I would say. I've seen a few dentists and they say I have good teeth, I think the shape is good. I don't have small teeth, I don't have big teeth. I don't have I'm not going to say I have perfect teeth okay, but I've never, had never suffered from like, like toothache. A friend of mine in recent years has had teeth issues, all right, right. So I would call him and be like bro. I sent you a text. You haven't replied in four days. Man is like dog.
Speaker 2I was ko'd by this toothache but I couldn't relate, I think. I think to me. I have never known the pain of, of having a toothache until now. It's a bit like period pain. I, I'm a man, I cannot experience period. So when women, even my missus, when she complains about period pain, I sympathize but I cannot relate. Okay, same thing with my tooth. With toothaches I couldn't. I can't relate because I've never felt it. I know what a headache feels like. I know what a stomachache feels like, but a toothache. All right, cut a long story short.
Speaker 2Two weeks ago I woke up with the right side of my jaw of my mouth was locked, like semi-locked I would say. I couldn't open my mouth fully. Every time I would speak it would hurt. It was pretty uncomfortable, all right, so I just let it be. Drunk some painkillers I don't even think I took any painkillers, to be fair. I was like now it's gonna go away. I don't know why it came so two days later the pain went from the right side to the left side and on the left side I couldn't. It wasn't necessarily the jaw that was hurting. Now I could feel my gums yeah, my gums and teeth kind of hurting, but I could still eat, I could chew, I could speak, with no issues, but the pain, I could locate it into the gum, right. So I hope you're keeping up.
Speaker 2So it gradually got worse. Bruv like, like at some point. Yeah, I could not even sleep, I think last, uh, on saturday, no, no, the night from Friday to Saturday. On Friday night I did not sleep until like 6 am, I kid you not. I was sat in front of my computer. The pain started around 11 pm until 6 am, I did not move from my chair. I couldn't do anything. It is the worst thing I have ever experienced. It is the worst thing I have ever experienced and I give props big up to everyone who has gone through these pains or who go through this pain regularly. I have a close friend of mine who, I think, every six months he will call you and tell you he has teeth issues. Guys, I am so, so blessed, and have been blessed, not to have had any of these issues throughout my whole life. I turn 30 soon and this is the first time that I'm experiencing this.
Speaker 2So I book an appointment with a dentist. The dentist can see me only, I think, five days after I booked the appointment. He was busy before then. Guys, those days, those five days, were excruciating. Why? Because the pain was just relentless and all you can do is just drink painkillers. You can't do anything else. Bruv like you. You can't apply something on it. All they told me was painkillers and uh, lukewarm, uh salted water. So you put it in your mouth on the side where the pain is. People with these problems probably can't relate. So I have this issue. Over the weekend, I think I'll go see the doctor on the thursday. He can only see me on on the tuesday of the following week. So for like five days I'm just sat there in pain, in utter pain. Bruv, like the pain comes and it goes. You drink painkillers.
Speaker 2At first, when I started drinking painkillers, it will go away, all right, but then it won't go away, like the painkillers are not working anymore, as if. As if, uh, like my body got used to the painkillers to the point where I started drinking my missus, uh, period pains, painkillers that's how we're, that's how bad it got, you know. And those ones would work pretty rapidly, at least faster than than the one that the doctor prescribed. So I went through one tablet, I think within a day and a half I had finished the tablet already. From the beginning of when I started having the toothache I might have gone through 48 tablets. I'm not even playing Like at some point I was like you know what? I hope I don't have those because I was drinking so many.
Speaker 2For me, as long as I'm doing better, that's the only thing that matters. I don't care if the pain it was just, oh, it was too much. Man like I can't wish it on anyone and I and I'm telling you, bro, I cannot wish it on anyone, because the pain is, it is. You cannot stand it. For a very long time I've always asked myself what is worse a headache or, or like a tummy ache? Okay, but I've always preferred a headache because a tummy ache, guys, I have.
Speaker 2I have suffered from ulcer when I was younger. Yeah, like, like, I haven't really had, like, uh, stomach aches for for a long time, but I had ulcer, like not not acute ulcer, but I had like, uh, I had ulcer. Yeah, I was diagnosed at the hospital. I had ulcer and that pain was so bad, was I? I remember when I was was, when I was younger, I used to cry like that's how bad the pain was, like you just roll yourself around like you don't know what to do, and this is kind of comparable times 100 I'm not even playing, bro like when your time you hurt it. It's very, it's bad. I can't say I prefer that to a toothache. But I feel like the toothache is worse because my whole head hurts, my, uh, the whole left hand side hurts, my gums hurt, my teeth hurts, my throat on the left side hurts, my ear hurts the inside of my like bro, yeah, I'm not well, okay, so, so it's been very hard.
Speaker 2I wanted to record an episode last week and last week I was in the thick of it. That's when I was I was doing bad, okay. So anyway, uh, tuesday comes, I go into the dentist, the dentist sees me and he, he tells, he tells me that I need to remove, uh, my, my, my wisdom teeth, basically. So he told me that from the age of 16 to the age of 30, about 30, human beings develop what you call wisdom teeth and they need to be removed because they're growing in your gums. All right, this is what he told me.
Speaker 2So I never knew about it, but I can tell because my gums at the back here, sometimes they will get sore, but nothing alarming. Ok, it will always go away. Even when this started, I thought it was one of those. I'm like it will go away. But okay, it will always go away. Even when this started, I thought it was one of those. I'm like it will go away, but it never did.
Speaker 2All right, today, this started two weeks ago and for the past two weeks I've had a toothache. I've called the specialist. Uh, okay, I'm getting too ahead of myself. So I see the doctor. He says they need to get replaced and he said something very sus. He said that, uh, human beings, since we are not bonobos anymore, we don't have space for those teeth in. They're like wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. What do you mean bonobos? And this white man is like in the 60s. I'm like these apartheid fellas hey, this low-key sounded like a diss, bro. What do you mean bonobo man? Like, just tell me, I don't even believe in evolution, you know. I mean, this guy said since you're not bonobos anymore, we don't have space for the. I just like you know why you're the expert.
Speaker 2I'm in pain. I'll listen to you, say whatever you want to say, as long as I do better call me a monkey, if you want. I'm just. I'm joking, but. But my point is the pain just made me so irrational, bro. I was there. I'm just like anything you tell me I'll do it. I just want this pain to go away. So he prescribed me more medicines, more painkillers, and he says basically there's no other way. You know, there's no alternative. They have to get removed or it will get worse. Okay, so I have to get them removed. I call the specialist and he tells me he doesn't have the resources to do the operation. So I need to go see a specialist and the specialist will probably charge me for like theater if I have to take all four of them. So maybe we should take the one that needs attention urgently, which will allow him to do it in the chair, which makes the whole thing cheaper.
Speaker 1I'm like okay no problem, uh.
Speaker 2So we go and check the the quotes. This is about 25 to 30k for one tooth to be removed in the chair, and if you go to theater I'll have to pay more because now you're booking theater, because that's where surgeries happen, and I'm just there like bro, and and just just like, like, uh, like on a, on a sideway thing. How do people even live in the us, bro? Because if in the in, in sa, I'm complaining about 25k for one, two, three to be removed, imagine what they have to go through in the us US with their health care. That is so expensive, anyway, but yeah, so I called the specialist. They can only see me in two months, so the next two months I have to literally be like this. All right, I just have to man up and, guys, I'm telling you, on Friday night, that's probably one of the worst days in my life. You know I was sleepy, but I couldn't sleep because the pain was there. Did you understand how, how bad the pain has to be for you to just sit there and be awake because you are in pain? I was just there, bro, like waiting, and I think the pain never went away. I just fell asleep. I just woke up at like 8 am. I was on the couch in my office and I was. I was. I had slept for like two or three hours, bro, because the pain kept me awake from 11 pm all the way to 6 am the next morning.
Speaker 2So I don't wish to swear anyone and everyone who has gone who has had to go through toothaches. Please, you have my respect. Yeah, my friend, you will know who it is. I'm not going to name drop here. I've had a few conversations with him and he's told me that, oh, my tooth was killing me. Oh, I went to the dentist. I'm like it only happened to me once and this is one too many. I don't know about you, but this is one too many for me. So that's the problem.
Government Turning Off Etoll System
Speaker 2That's my little story about toothache. This tooth is kidding me, bro, like I have tried so many things, but I feel like right now the salted water works more than the painkillers, which is kind of weird. So when I put it there, it just kind of relieves the pain for like a few 10, 15 minutes. Then it kind of comes back again. Then I do it again. So I'm constantly walking around with warm salted water, if you see me drink a lot of water. Yeah, just know, this is salted. Then it's for my tooth. It's crazy man Like please, guys, share your opinions. What type of pain do you think is worse? And I was thinking imagine being a woman having period pain and a toothache. And I was just like, imagine if my tooth is killing me like this, and then down there I also have periods that are killing me. Oh my God, women, you guys go through a lot. You go through a lot.
Speaker 1You are listening to the Get Equipped podcast with your host, Daxel Kiyungu.
Speaker 2So the government has officially switched off the gantries of the Houteng Freeway Improvement Project. So this is a project that was implemented in 2013, if I'm not mistaken. I remember, just for a bit of context, when we acquired our first car acquired when we bought our first car we had to pay for a few. You know a few things like your insurance, and eTall was one of the things that we paid for as well. So, when you pay for e few, you know a few things like like your insurance, and, and it all was one of the things that we paid for as well. So when you pay for it all, they give you a little device that you put in your car and every time you drive on like a freeway highway uh, all the network that is under gfip, which is the howtang freeway improvement project there will be a beep on that device in your car. I don't know if any of you have it, because it's pretty rare just to show you how badly implemented it's been for like 10 years. So they implemented it in 2013 and now they are taking it down. I'll give you a bit of a context Every time you guys drive on a.
Speaker 2This is for people who don't know what it all is. Okay, when you drive on a highway let's say you're on N1, especially at night there's this huge I don't know how to describe it, man. It's like it's not a tunnel, obviously, but it's like you drive through it, which is like it lights up as purple-ish, blue-ish, right and it looks nice. It's got cameras. If you are speeding, they'll take a picture of you. Then they'll send you something via the mail for you to pay for your ticket and things like that. So those things are not just ornament, it's not just for decor. Okay, that is the Etoll payment station. Okay. So once you drive, every time you drive there, it doesn't mean you're driving fast. You can drive at at one kilometer per hour or 200 kilometers per hour, but every time you pass that station it takes a picture of you, or you're supposed to be paying for your e-tour. So for the amount of times you would have driven on the highway, at the end of the month they send you a bill to tell you hey, you have used the road, please pay the tax for you to use the freeway, which sounds fair, okay, but the problem is they hadn't implemented it well for the longest time. I wasn't a motorist, okay, so I would use uber and other forms of transport to get around. And I kid you, not the last time that I've heard a beep in someone's car, I can't even remember. Okay, because if you don't pay for it all and you do have that because you have to load up points on your, on your device so if you don't pay for it all, whenever you drive past one of those um gantries it should beep twice to say you don't have any more units available in your, in your device. But if you do, it will be once to say okay, it's been acknowledged that you are someone who pays your tax. All right, so now they have switched it off because people have been complaining for years.
Speaker 2I remember back, probably like five, six, seven years ago. There was a. There was a huge protest in, in, on all the freeways, on the highway, people protesting against etal because people don't like it, people don't like the fact that they have to pay to use the freeway, etc. Blah, blah, blah. But on the government's behalf, if I would like to play devil's advocate, they need it for them to maintain these roads. Okay, just in general for them to do a different type of project. Ok, just in general, for them to do a different type of project maintenance, like to repair the construction of the roads, to upgrade them and things like that. Ok, and it does support the economy as well. That's if everyone complies. But I'll give you an example Uber you guys use Uber regularly, ok. Uber, you guys use Uber regularly, okay. So the fact that you use Uber and you've never heard that device beep every time you drive on the N1, it should tell you that they haven't implemented it. Well, I have never been stopped, okay, by the police and then I get arrested because I'm not ETO compliant. It's never happened to me, which shows you that the government has failed to implement this tax way of us paying tax for using the freeway. Okay.
Speaker 2So I'm just going to read a bit from this article to give you a bit of a context. So, government has officially switched off the gantries of the Houteng Freeway Improvement Project, which is GIFP. So every time I say GIFP, you know I'm referring to the halting freeway improvement project, popularly known as e-tolls. From this month this is the minister who speaks from this month forth, road users will no longer be charged for using the gifp network. This decision is a testament to our government's commitment to listen to, to listen to and serve the needs of its citizens, minister of transport c Sindhisiwe Shikunga said in Centurion during a ceremonial switch-off. The gantries were switched off on Thursday at midnight at the South African National Road Agency, cenrol, the government body that takes care of roads, construction and things like that. Okay, when you have a pothole, you will see these are the guys that will come and try and fix it.
Speaker 2So, although the system of e-toll was implemented after some consultation had taken place, it aggravated a lot of public and concerned cabinet when e-tolls were first introduced in 2013,. That is, the intention was to provide the critical road infrastructure necessary to support Haoteng's thriving economy, one of the largest in our nation and our continent. However, we have heard the pleas of Haotengarist thank you and, after careful deliberation, we have responded. So a three-member cabinet committee, tasked by President Sirirama Fosa in 2019, has diligently explored alternative funding solutions for the GFIP debt repay and the backlog of maintenance and rehabilitation costs. So my biggest issue here, first of all, is this only took place in 2019. Okay, but we are in 2024.
Speaker 2So there are two things here. First of all, you can see how long it has taken them to find a replacement. You can see how long it's taken them to find a replacement. You can see how long it's taken them to find an alternative for them to tax motorists for using the freeway. Yes, because this is five years later. That's when you guys are implementing the change now, but you still don't have an alternative, because throughout the article it's not mentioned anywhere that there is an alternative to that.
Speaker 2We have so many potholes. If you live in Johannesburg, I was in Cape Town, I think I went to Cape Town twice last year and, trust me, it's oh man. The roads are so smooth, bro, you don't have issues on the road. Johannesburg is another detail. It's a whole other debate. Man, even Midrand, that seems to be a bit of a new. People are moving towards mid-range. It's the same thing. It's the same same thing. The roads are are bad, always being rehabilitated. People are painting the roads again, not people. The sun roll. They're painting the roads again, like every six months. They have to fix the things. Things are getting worse and now one of the ways that the, the ways to fund those projects, has been taken away from sandroll, which is a bit worrying.
Speaker 2But there will be a bit of a of a rebuttal later in the article where you'll see it's, it's I don't. I know it's a drawback, but it also opens for opportunity, especially for the private sector. And this is what I was thinking as well. But I'm so glad the article also mentions it, because when we get to that part we'll also talk about things like ESCOM not being able to manage electricity. So allowing the private sector to jump into the equation can also help, and I think Sanrol here is embracing it. And I really hope that ESCOM and Johannesburg Water allow the government, allow the private sector to also get involved, which can bring more competitiveness and even alternatives. You know, I mean the population is ever-growing, so we need to attend to more people. If they can't deal with the numbers now, think about in five years, when the numbers will still keep increasing. So if ESCOM and Johannesburg Water cannot manage that, allow the private sector to get involved the same way that SunRoll has allowed the private sector to get involved. And I think we'll read it as we go through the minister said that the government is committed to continually engage with all the stakeholders to explore adequate and sustainable funding solutions for road constructions, maintenance and upgrades supporting economic development across the nation, and this is what I'm saying.
Speaker 2There is no alternative economic development across the nation. And this is what I'm saying. There is no alternative. It's like someone who has two jobs and can barely meet what do you call it? Can barely meet all the expenses in a month, all right, now you take away one of his jobs. That's even worse. So I feel like right now the roads are not good and we've taken one major because because how do we pay for the freeway? No, and I'm pretty sure there was a lot of money going into that.
Speaker 2How, after five years in this project, they haven't found an alternative is quite worrying to me. Unless there's something else, man, I'm just reading what I have in front of me and this is official, um, official, what an official statement from the government. Okay, this is the the south african uh website, south african government website. When they have this information. So, unless there's something, an alternative, where they have found something else to alleviate that pressure from the government, then I don't know where the money is coming from. In the article it says they have diligently explored alternative funding solutions for the GFIP debt repayment. So I don't know, man, it feels like you have two jobs and you owe people money and at the same time, they take away the job from you. Now you still owe.
Speaker 2I said at the beginning man, if you owe someone money, challenge them to a race. I don't know if it's America that you owe money to. If we owe you money, america, please we bring in our best athletes. Bring your president as well. Ramaphosa against Biden. If Ramaphosa beats Biden, we don't owe you money anymore. I think it's fair, bro, yeah, yeah, I think I think it's fair, man. But ash, the country is is is. When you start thinking about it, huh, like there's so many flows, but we'll overcome them. We'll overcome them. I think so we'll overcome them. Alright.
Speaker 2The minister goes on and says as government, we are still in discussion regarding the historical death owed by motorists. Ooh, okay, so they might still come for us. Because the thing is and this is my biggest preoccupation it's nice to scrap it all from the whole project. We scrap it. People don't like it, take it away. So who's going to pay for this? Who's going to pay? And that's probably the flaw in my analogy as well, when I'm saying if you owe someone money, challenge them to a race. Ok, I've beaten you in the race, so who pays for the debt now, and that's the problem we have here.
Speaker 2For Senrol, this significant milestone unlocks the ability to approach the private sector for funding, enabling the agency to execute its pipeline of capital expenditure project. So apparently they have a lot of projects and they know how they can execute this. Then mention it, bruv. Mention it because it's not coming from my pocket. Please don't increase vats to 17 so that we can pay for roads now, please, please, bro, because, because this is what the government does, they make you feel like, hey, we've helped you with this, but this is a backhanded compliment. There's no more ETO, but you guys will pay now a lot of money for petrol, because what they do is you don't pay for ETO, but the people who bring in petrol in the country are taxed more.
Speaker 2So what happens is, since you tax more all these, what do you call them? The petrol providers? Just give me a few examples Engine, for example. You see you have engine. You tax engine more money. Now, engine will tax me more money. Okay, because engine is going to tax more money, let's go slowly, all right.
Speaker 2The government taxes engine more money for them to bring in petrol. Woolworth is being charged more money by engine for them to transport goods. Now Woolworth is going to charge me more for the goods. Why? Because it's spending a lot more on transport, and this is the repercussion of fuel becoming expensive. I don't look at fuel and please don't look at fuel being expensive just on the. Please don't look at fuel being expensive just on individuals. This is very expensive on these big corporations because they do it at such a great scale that you cannot even imagine. So when the fuel goes up by one, two rand, yeah, you think you are filling it. No, you're not filling it yet you fill it because now Woolworth will charge you more because it's taking them more to bring food into their stores. Now the food will cost more, and then who's gonna pay for that? It's gonna be you and I, the customer. So because it all has been cancelled, now apples are more expensive, and these are the repercussions of economy. This is how it rolls out.
Speaker 2It's very hard, hard for people to understand this, but this is how inflation starts. So when you look at like from an economic perspective, from an economical perspective, it's very. You know it's tricky, and this is what I like with international business in uni, especially in post-grad. These are the things that we go through in in our lecture. You know, when you're there in a lecture, this is what you go through, this is how you analyze an issue, because if something like this happens, the repercussions is still on me, the customer. Although it's like, this is what I gave. An example with VAT. They'll tell you this, this, this, but now V, but now that is 15%. You say, ah, I buy a t-shirt, 15% is nothing, but throughout the whole year. How much is that? Two or three more percent on the goods that you're purchasing? It's tricky, but hey, I'm really curious to see how this it all affects the economy of the country and I'll be on the lookout and maybe in the future there'll be another episode for me to explain where and what the alternatives are. Because, hey, sunroll, someone has to pay for these things and SunRoll are not going to take it out of their pocket, they say it here. For SunRoll, this is a significant milestone because it unlocks the ability to approach the private sector for funding, enabling the agency to execute its pipeline of capital expenditure project.
Speaker 2As we bid farewell to Etole, it is important to note that the benefits of improved roads remain Right. So we still have to improve our roads. So how do we do it? It's going to be from your pocket, so it's taken them five years to find the best way to subdue the money out of your pocket. So be patient. We'll tell you soon how we're going to swindle you into you paying more for this. But be patient, we'll tell you soon.
Speaker 2I like the way this article is written by the government. They take time, bro. They write it like hey, it's a good news, it's been scrapped. They did a party in centurion, the third party no more itos. People are happy, but who's gonna pay for the road now, considering that we were already in it? Very, very, uh, interesting topic. That's what I said, like I did economics and and marketing and management in uni. So topics like this really please me. It pleases me because it it opens my mind to think yeah, to think a bit further down the line.
Speaker 2What's going to happen? Happen now, and I think that's the whole point of growing up. It's no more about just you. Okay, maybe school fees will become more expensive, maybe you pay some out of form of tax elsewhere, maybe they bring it all 2.0. You know what I mean, because my thing is, guys, this project failed, but the issues remain. We still have potholes that need to be covered, that need to be fixed. Someone has to pay for it, someone has to take the blame.
Speaker 2Okay, and soon we'll be voting for the new government. A new government comes in. What happens? This is Irumaposa, who listened and took it down. What if the DEA comes in and the DEA decides to bring back ETOs?
Speaker 2An alternative has to be found, and this is where I said earlier maybe the private sector. I don't know what they mean by private sector. Maybe the private sector would be allowing. Um, not necessarily because. Because one thing that china has done in africa of recent, in the recent decade or two, is they've really helped, especially in like. I'll give you an example close to home, in the Congo, china has built a lot of roads, so they have big contracts to come in and help your roads and help you build roads. We've seen videos of like South Korea, japan and China. There's a road that collapses within a week. Overnight, the road is back, you know. So maybe bringing private companies that can help, maybe alleviate the pressure or take away the weight of Sandro having to deal with all these things, but at the same time, these are jobs being lost.
Speaker 2Okay, I was thinking about it earlier. It just came back to my mind now like people were working at it all. It all doesn't exist. It will still exist because and we'll see it in a bit but in essence the reason why it was introduced will not function anymore. So at least a few people are losing their jobs. So someone has to account for that as well. So people would have lost their jobs.
Speaker 2It's a bit sad. It's a bit sad to see that it has to get to this. But hey, this is the news here. So you guys, I know you haven't been paying for it all, but please, now you have no pressure to pay for it all. I haven't paid since I bought my car. No, no, no, I've never paid for Eto. And I said that the first car that we owned, my brother's car, was Eto registered, but this one, the one that I have, not compliant to Eto, my wife not compliant to Eto, and I don't even think you guys are listening to me right now. You are not compliant to Eto. I know you guys are listening to me right now you are not compliant to ito. I know that for a fact. You know I mean. So it's been scrapped, so don't stress about it anymore, don't worry about it anymore.
Speaker 2It's always nice to bring some news that is close to home. People living in johannesburg, people living in haoteng at least you know now that ito is not a thing I don't know, because it talks about, uh, haoteng. So I don't think they have it in Cape Town, in Western Cape today. Maybe I stand to be corrected, but if they don't have it now you know it's something that existed. And if you also have it now that it's been scrapped in Houteng, at least it speaks of Houteng here. I don't know about Cape Town, because I also have some family, some people that I know in Cape Town, because I also have some, like, some family, some people that I know in Cape Town you guys probably don't even know about it all yeah, we've been paying tax to use anyone bruv.
Speaker 1Sad, sad, sad you are listening to the get equipped podcast with your host, daxel Kiyungu all right, let's talk business.
Speaker 2Please, please, come close, come closer. I'm about to give you the biggest business idea. That will not make sense, but it makes sense, okay, all right. So let me give you a bit of a context. I feel like I've said this a lot of times. I like to give context so you understand exactly what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2So for Easter, I had my brother and sister-in-law come over celebrate with us. We spent some good time together and on Easter Day we called them like Christmas Day. On Easter Day, we went to a good restaurant. We went to a good restaurant. We had some food, some good, some game meat. We had a lot of game meat, which was amazing Succulent. We had a taste of kudu. We had a taste of antelope. We had a lot of game meat, okay, which was amazing succulent. We had a taste of kudu. We had a taste of antelope. We had a taste of crocodile. We had a taste of of, uh, kudu, what kudu sausage bro we had. We ate so many things. There's even, I think we also ate what goose, goose or moose, one of those two? Yeah, we have. We. We had a. We just had a lot of food. Okay, I think we probably even had ostrich as well. Yeah, we did have ostrich, I can't remember, but we had a lot of game game meats, not not the regular meat that you would eat on a on a regular basis. So it's a good experience.
Speaker 2But one thing that stood out that day the bread. God damn the bread. Guys, like I, I want to. I want to talk to you seriously, okay, from a business perspective perspective. Why do I keep saying perspective? From a business perspective, guys, like, put your business hat on. Okay, why is it so difficult for all these food stores to bring us restaurant bread quality? I'm tired of Albani, bro. Like the other day I made I think yesterday morning I made the most boring breakfast ever, bro, it's just like omelette nothing inside, just eggs, salt and toast. I'm tired of that bread, bro. It gives me no inspiration. But, bro, restaurant bread is the what's the word? I don't want to cuss man. Restaurant bread is the one, bro, like restaurant bread. I don't know, man, like you guys can relate. You go to the restaurant. They give you the bread.
Speaker 2That day I was hungry and I and I probably had I definitely had more bread than anyone on the table and, as if that wasn't enough, I even asked for more bread before we left. I wanted to ask for bread again. Can I have some takeaway bread please, guys, why do restaurant bread are so good, so good, and you have pick and pay selling you Albani Woolworth With their? There's this type of bread they sell. I think it's called like Mama something, something. Mama Anna, yes, mama Anna bread. It's some brown bread.
Speaker 2Bro, bring me restaurant bread. What's going on here? I remember last year we went to a turkish restaurant and they gave us papas, tapas, papas I don't even know what you call it, bro quality. I ended up having, uh, I ended up having, uh, some, uh, chicken kebab, but the bread was the best thing on the table. Same thing for the restaurant that we went to, um on chris on on on easter day the bread was the best. It was nice, nice, and that's what I'm talking about, bro.
Speaker 2Like who here just sits down and says I don't like restaurant bread, I don't know what they put in restaurant bread and all the restaurants don't have the same bread. That is weird to me, eh, Every restaurant you go to has different bread, but the bread always stands out. I wish I could go to a restaurant, just have their bread and go home, you see that bread with the butter they put in the small package Dog, like why Pick and pay? Catch up, and this is what I'm saying. This is a business idea, bro.
Speaker 2Open a bakery, boulangerieie. Open a boulangerie, start serving us restaurant bread. Only I'll come, I'll be your biggest customer. You will make bread, yes, you will make bread, just by selling restaurant bread. Forget about baguette, forget about french, french baguette, and it's nice, but restaurant bread, elite, elite of breads. And please, and this is what I'm saying, man, someone who can invest, please, you can, you can, you can take this idea and once you start making money, just come pay your royalties, because you've heard it here first, you can make a business out of restaurant bread. I'm pretty sure, bruv, you can go to a bakery. Today, you will not find better bread than restaurant bread. Ha, whatever this restaurant put in their breads yeah we need to find out.
Speaker 2And my thing is like it's not like all the restaurants have the same bread. It's not like you go to a restaurant. You go to, let's say, what's restaurant. You go to a restaurant in santon and they give you albani bread, which is nice. You go to another restaurant, they give you another albani bread. No, every single restaurant. They make their own bread and those breads oh my god, I can talk about bread all day long. Man, it's actually incredible. So yeah, man, business idea. Please, please, please, trust me, trust me, trust me, trust me. Restaurant bread. Just call it like that Restaurant bread RB. Have you had that RB? Forget Albany, bro. Albany will go bankrupt. Restaurant bread, man. Sign me up, sign me up.
Speaker 1You are listening to the Get Equipped podcast with your host, Daxel Kiyungu.
Speaker 2All right then. So let's talk a bit of mental health. Second time running, second time running. I haven't told you about my mental health, and mental health is probably on minus one, bro, like right now. I just I'm not having fun in life. I can't lie to you, bro, and the reason being is look my wife. My life is very much centered around football.
Speaker 2Okay, I love football, and recently I haven't been able to. I said it in the previous episode I haven't been able to play football, actual football. That's one Another way for me to been able to play football actual football that's one Another way for me to express or to live football is through FIFA, okay, the video game. The servers were down for like a month and a half, so for a month and a half I didn't play FIFA, because I only enjoy online gaming, so I hadn't been playing FIFA. Add to that, the third way that I consume football is through actual watching football on TV.
Speaker 2And I'm a Chelsea fan, and you know what's been happening to Chelsea recently. We're getting slapped everywhere we go. Bruv we lost 5-0 against Arsenal, and you want my mental health to be on 10 less of that I am. I am, it's, it's. It's a nightmare, bruv. It is a nightmare for football right now as a football fan.
Speaker 2So, yeah, man, I'm just taking in the banter. People are laughing at me everywhere I go, we're getting batted everywhere we go. So, no, mental health can only be on. It's very low. It's very, very low. It's low. It's never been this low before. I want my manager sackedacked. We can't even beat bottom of the league. We can't beat small teams. We can't even compete against better teams. Rivals are beating us. We are the laughing stock.
Speaker 2So yeah, man, and I like to dish out banter. I love, I love to do that when your team loses, no, I'll make fun of you. And then now everyone is coming back and the thing is, chelsea is not a popular team like a man United, like a Liverpool, like a Madrid, like an Arsenal, where you find a lot of fans around. I am probably the only Chelsea fan, you know, bro. So whenever Chelsea loses, bro, like, everyone comes at me as if I'm the manager. But it is deserved because I also dish out Chelsea loses, bro, like everyone comes at me as if I'm the manager. But it is deserved because I also dish out a lot of banter.
Speaker 2But people are on my case, bruv, guys, you know, now I have a toothache. Give me a break, man, please. I've been suffering, bruv. Yes, chelsea, please do better, man, my mental health is in the gutter. Come on, oh, my days.
Speaker 2Anyway, guys, this is the end of this episode. Thank you for joining, thank you for listening. We'll probably get another episode in two weeks. If I'm feeling nice, maybe next week. But yeah, I said for the beginning, let's get every two weeks. We put an episode in.
Speaker 2So remember for this episode that a toothache is probably the worst thing in life. Yes, now I agree, guys, when you drive on the N1, you see the big blue thing that you see at night. It's not just deco, it used to be e-toll, it used to be tax, but it's been scrapped, it's been taken away by the government. So, hip, hip, hip to be taxed, but it's been scrapped, it's been taken away by the government. So he beep, hooray to see the rama fossa. I don't know if that's enough to get him re-elected, but hey, let's try.
Speaker 2So, guys, uh, let me leave you on a positive note. Remember that david was tested against goliath and god sent me to tell you today he did not send goliath to kill you. He did not send Goliath to kill you. He did not send Goliath to slain you, but he sent Goliath to make you realize that inside of you is a giant slayer. So, whatever you're going through this week, just remember that God put in you the ability to get through, he put in you the ability to overcome and he put in you the ability to stand against a giant and defeat him. And that is the same spirit that you have in you. I wish you a good week, a happy new month. May is going to be a month of testimony. I will testify, you will testify. Great thing is going to happen in this month. I do believe it. As I always say, don't forget to drink your water, don't forget to pray. Until next time, take care, thank you, bye.
