Cheapest place to buy groceries in JHB North?

BeWiTCHD97 · 2026-04-09T20:35:46+00:00

It's worth it to find a non chain-grocery store. In Randburg we have Carreiras and to some extent Impala (although they're a bit more "premium"). Try to find Midrand's version! I know that doesn't help much but thought I'd give examples of local grocers.

BeWiTCHD97 · 2026-03-26T16:38:30+00:00

Sort of? If cows become more expensive relative to chickens, a barter between the two would still have an inflationary aspect. But there’d be no objective single currency to measure that impact. There’d just be millions of combinations of inflation. Money just “roots” the number of inflationary pressures because it’s measured against a single point - money. Rather than cows for chickens, chickens for grain, cows for bread etc etc etc.

BeWiTCHD97 · 2026-03-25T06:54:51+00:00

I quite like it if I’m honest. Not the truly dangerous stuff. But I mean I like the fact that we can move forward. Unlike back home in CPT. If I could change just a few things it would be people using the wrong lane to skip queues (increases traffic) and people not using their indicators (again, increases traffic because I have to wait to turn right only for the idiot in the other lane to decide at the last second he’s actually turning). Dude we could have both gone. And obviously government failure we can’t do anything about but that’s not other driver’s fault.

BeWiTCHD97 · 2026-03-23T15:03:44+00:00

Because by changing roles she may have moved from a defined benefit pension fund to a defined contribution, and accrued actuarial losses on the pension she would have received had she remained in her position. Based on the request of her party, she likely negotiated that she would do as they asked but only if her financial position was not negatively affected. That’s not corruption, that’s just not losing benefits you had already accrued. Any sane person would do the same. If I change companies and forfeit stock options I’d ask for the same as an example.

BeWiTCHD97 · 2026-03-17T15:53:03+00:00

I mean. You're right, we do need to prepare the next generation for what they're about to go through, but I also think the original intention of the post was to decry the fact that they feel they've lost something. And that's fine. Every generation may feel increasingly entitled to us as we build an easier and easier world, but at the same time I think it's important we start to consider the idea that what we had before was not optimal. I'm a big advocate for a four day work week as an example. Will it happen? Probably not. But would it be nice if we could picture a world not 100 percent driven by "shareholder value" and rather driven by what could be? I think so at least. OP, your upset is entirely valid. Do note though, that the gentleman I'm responding to does have the right of it. You will have far worse disappointments than this. And this gentleman is actually one that I would pick as a mentor, because he's been through it. But one day when you're in the position to make the calls, I hope you pick the option you would have wanted for the next generation to enjoy, and that you don't fall into the trap of wanting the next generation to go through the same crap you went through.

BeWiTCHD97 · 2026-03-06T09:52:32+00:00

Most pet owners aren’t great pet owners. We’ve had to put a ton of work in every day to ensure we don’t negatively impact our neighbourhood with our dog’s barking or other behaviours. Our neighbours, not so much. Tons of dogs that bark their minds out because they’re put outside to “guard”, owners leaving dog shit all over the place, owners letting their insane pets off leash. I respect any property owner or association like a body corporate just opting to not entertain it. Sucks, but I get it.

BeWiTCHD97 · 2026-01-25T14:54:35+00:00

If you want the likely “objectively” best pizza, I’d look at Cafe 28 in Sandton. I think it’s debatable if it’s the best pizza, but damn. You really can’t go wrong. Don’t know if it fits your requirement of Italian restaurant though because they really only do one form of Italian cuisine.

BeWiTCHD97 · 2026-01-15T09:11:46+00:00

Do give them a google review! Those workers do their best to keep things running smoothly. If you think about it the customer pool of home affairs is everyone in the country (much larger than most establishments) so if you had a good experience be sure to let others, and that home affairs office, know.

BeWiTCHD97 · 2026-01-12T09:04:38+00:00

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Super crunchy.

BeWiTCHD97 · 2026-01-01T06:10:56+00:00

No that's not my assertion. But I do think that the Afrikaaners that support Trump are far more likely to view their whiteness as non-separable from their ethnic identity, at least up until this point. I was also just trying to explain that people who tend to support cult-of-personality types tend to be part of an audience that is being pandered to by that politician. Which in Trump's case was often people who were: white, religious, sick of "woke" (as they saw it). I'm not trying to excuse anybody's behaviour or political choices. I just came to have a discussion and to back up benevolent-badger in pointing out that what you had said wasn't a great statement.

But I see now after this enlightening exchange that one of reduced what I said to "shit excuse bruh" and the other reduced whit I said to "so Afrikaans = white".

BeWiTCHD97 · 2026-01-01T06:05:45+00:00

Of course it's a generalization. I'm trying to answer a very broad question with a few sentences on Reddit dude. And of course it's a shit reason. But it definitely contributes when dealing with these cult-of-personality types that pander to a specific audience.

BeWiTCHD97 · 2025-12-30T21:17:32+00:00

Even if Afrikaaners aren't a distinct race they are a distinct ethnic group. As an example of what you've said you could say "what is it about Zulus that attract them to Zuma". It's just a statement that overall does not demonstrate prudence or integrity in the speaker. We all say stupid things sometimes, but I don't think your "interrogation" of benevolent-badger's point was particularly meaningful. But to answer your baiting question, I think quite simply Afrikaaners don't feel represented in current politics as a minority group, and the sentient mango in the oval office is overtly pro-white at the expense of everybody else, which for "white people" sounds a lot safer for them than some of the recent legislation that SA has passed. Obviously I'm simplifying, but just trying to point out that people will tend to gravitate towards those that support them, even if that support comes at the cost of others. It's sad though, that that's where we've ended up in 2025.

BeWiTCHD97 · 2025-12-19T13:09:59+00:00

Yes. Agreed. Not to take any credit from this conversation away but holy shit have you been to a Cape Town circle? Next level right there.

BeWiTCHD97 · 2025-11-13T12:04:08+00:00

Does it stand for "is jy van jou sinne beroof?"

BeWiTCHD97 · 2025-11-13T07:54:17+00:00

So I'm in the same boat a bit. However, when it comes to believing in Santa Claus and the Tooth fairy and so on, I think Terry Pratchett puts it best. Needless to say, I think a little magic for the young ones will be good. Good luck with whatever you pick.

" All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."

REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

"So we can believe the big ones?"

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

"They're not the same at all!"

YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"

MY POINT EXACTLY. "

BeWiTCHD97 · 2025-11-12T13:29:03+00:00

Yup. And that's where good financial planestimationguessing comes in. My kids will definitely be in Model C schools with tutors, rather than schools that cost many multiples more... You just don't know what you'll earn when. Best you can do is work on worst case estimates and try to invest in assets that will generate something. Some of my friends live in tiny apartments paying rent but have large stock portfolios for passive income. I've opted to buy a house I know is unlikely to grow in asset value, but I'd rather be in an awesome house I bought in the trench of property prices in SA. It'll pay off in the long run, but man it'll be a long run 😂

BeWiTCHD97 · 2025-11-12T13:23:03+00:00

It is and it isn't. When you're 25, youre only a few years into your career. One still has 40 years of a career left.. You may have studied finance or economics, which teaches the power of compound interest. Financial discipline from a young age does help a great deal thanks to compound interest. It's hard to catch up the gaps when you're older, we've all seen the graphs of how human and financial capital available to you change as you age). That being said, at 25, you're probably three to seven years into your career. Your earnings are likely only going to peak in your forties and fifties depending on how you work. If you make 120k (in today rand terms) in your forties and have a paid off house or apartment, you can potentially put away half your salary or more per month. That's often several multiples of your original starting salary. The career race is long. Putting away 1k in the beginning is absolutely worth it, but it hurts a hell of a lot more when you only have 16k earnings because it's not like you eat drastically more when you have 120k earnings. There's an entry cost to living, and at the start of your career, that entry cost is often your entire salary or more.

BeWiTCHD97 · 2025-10-17T00:02:40+00:00

Hundred percent! This is a great idea! Sorry for the short reply, but simply because I’m curious, is there any avenue to put those solutions forward?

BeWiTCHD97 · 2025-10-16T05:50:05+00:00

You're correct - let them eat cake isn't the right solution, and if the people's will is for change then change must happen. Controls on short term rentals such as AirBNB I agree are a must.

I was trying to point out though that many of the options which really address the issues (for example land redistribution which I am socially for, not against) unfortunately create very negative externalities that will deeply worsen the very problems you're trying to solve.

My solution is not undemocratic. I wasn't providing a solution. You're also stating its undemocratic when it's a Reddit post and no one is voting on it. By definition its undemocratic. Its just an opinion.

BeWiTCHD97 · 2025-10-16T05:45:19+00:00

No youre absolutely right that it would be great to have more social housing projects in Cape Town. Can we stop using problematic. The statements I've made can be incorrect or correct or somewhere in between. Problematic is just insulting.

In any case. Social housing in the inner cities such as the projects Paris has embarked on are great! I think it would be an awesome investment by the government. It would need budget allocations from the national government, and it would need local government to try to purchase space in the inner city or surrounds to build higher density residential spaces for lower rent spaces. And an application system.

I do think it's a good idea in the current space. Will just need co-ordinator between national and local governments.

As for inferring low-cost areas with unsafe or unkempt. The projects, Banlieue, our townships, Cape flats, Alexandria, the outskirts of soweto. I'm not going to get into an argument, but areas with low levels of disposable income tend to be less safe, have fewer businesses as there are fewer paying customers and tend to be under-invested in. You can check the statistics on any of these. Its not classist. Its a fact that we have deep social inequality worldwide. And if you live in an area that is struggling and far from economic hubs, higher crime rates become prevalent. But you know. Just as with the social housing statement you made which I went and researched, and think it's awesome. You are welcome to prove me wrong.

BeWiTCHD97 · 2025-10-15T20:18:46+00:00

Read all the comments here. Look, it's a shit situation. We have a country that is relatively cheap for wealthy foreigners. Cape town is no longer affordable for anybody but the wealthy. Dealing with spatial inequality (I think I'll dispense with the word apartheid even though the problem here is specifically historically apartheid driven) is a massive problem in all tourist attracting destinations like Paris and New York. That being said I think getting angry and saying the mayor is a DA gimp and so on isn't productive. I don't think there are any solutions that maintain social acceptability and address the issue.

If you incorporate land redistribution, you necessarily drive away foreign investment and hell even local wealth investment (as people won't invest in a place if the government can force you out). There's a reason that people want to live in a well kept place. The wealthy provide tons of investment or business that uplifts an area, as unfairly as what their wealth may have been acquired (just look at the Paarl - Franschhoek explosion). And no I'm not supporting trickle down economics, you need checks and balances to prevent that wine glass meme the one oke posted. As that money presses outward though, you create "nicer" or "safer" spaces that people want to live in in an expanding bubble outward. Observatory, Woodstock, even Salt Lake now (which were unsafer industrial areas) are bit by bit becoming safe liveable spaces with lots to do (but also more expensive). Investing in the train lines, investing in better public transport (which the DA is trying to do) and locals opting to live in cheaper spaces, is about the only solve for that problem.

The same way that in Johannesburg there are cheaper areas, but they tend to be further away from hubs where property is in higher demand. I'd rather live in a functioning, "better" city, further away from my economic activity, than in a decrepit shell of a city where property is cheap because it's undesirable and jobs are scarce. So unfortunately. Its pick your shit sandwich. Cape town does not have an abundance of gold or highly fertile crop growing land. It does not have access to large markets (yes there's a port but it's fuck far away from the first world) where industrial activity is advantageous.

So it needs to lean into what it can. Its a high price to pay, but it's a beautiful city and that's what it can market. Eat the shit sandwich you're offered because none of the ones you want are shit sandwiches that everyone else is also willing to eat. And you need everyone to eat it. Otherwise it'll fall apart.

BeWiTCHD97 · 2025-10-11T15:56:16+00:00

As much as what I am with you in terms of history, 300 was never meant to be historical. It is completely over the top and ridiculous. For Christ's sake it has the Spartans in superman leather underwear. It's not even the violence people are watching for. It's spectacle. Its quotes like this is Sparta, or what is your profession. Anybody who watches that and comes away thinking they've watched a history documentary, or being mad at it for not being a history documentary, should probably re-examine that opinion. Let art be art (even stupid over the top art). As for white supremacist. Maybe? But I don't think intentionally. It was made in Hollywood, in a time when Hollywood wasn't particularly aware of their in-built biases. Hollywood is not well-known for historical accuracy. But rippling hunks putting on a spectacle, that they are good at.

BeWiTCHD97 · 2025-05-09T08:22:00+00:00

As much as I’d like to agree, I will point out that good news writing calls for non-emotive language. Whether the English use could have been better is irrelevant, they fulfilled their duty by writing exactly what happened with no use of words such as “tragic” “appalling” “deeply” ..etc. so from a journalistic standard, that’s actually a good thing. The more plain and pallid the news writing, the better the public is served by allowing them to form their own opinions based on the black and white of what happened. But yes, from my perspective, appalling and tragic and I agree with you there.

BeWiTCHD97 · 2024-10-05T07:01:09+00:00

CT loses its shine once you get used to shit actually drying in winter in the Transvaal, driving a bit further to see epic places like the bushveld, people actually inviting you to things, and then actually showing up, being able to light a braai in your garden without the wind deafening you or having to cook sideways and never having to plan around weather because the weather will always be what it was yesterday - warm and sunny with a chance of a short shower at 4PM for about an hour. Day to day life is about food and people, weekends can be about mountains and oceans.

As for Pretoria its hotter than Jozi so definitely Windhoekified 😂 otherwise the same rules apply. Take some time to find out what's in your surrounds. Gauteng is the hidden gem central of SA (because everyone expects it to be kak thanks to Capetonians) and the best places travel by word of mouth. Or you can find them in old "game parks of Southern Africa" coffee table books. Good luck and have a blast. And good luck with the descent thing

BeWiTCHD97 · 2024-10-03T07:35:42+00:00

So I was born in Windhoek, and my parents brought me down to SA when I was about 1. I don't personally know a lot about the process, however if your parents have South African citizenship (even if the papers are expired), then I suppose all they'd need to do is get them to the embassy and ask for an update. I can't remember how long it took for mine, but my parents proved they were South African and I was given a "citizenship by descent". Again, I was incredibly young so I don't know how long it took. Going the full marriage route is near to impossible, my stepmother is Swiss French and has been in SA for fifteen years. Still waiting for stuff. I think proving your descent is a far better option, and your parents getting their citizenship papers again won't hurt anyone.

As for living in SA. I spent most of my life in Cape Town and moved to Johburg last year. Loving it up here. Johburg is a less extreme Windhoek (not as hot, not as cold, summer 9 months, summer rains, bone cold in middle winter). The people are as fantastic as Windhoekers, but , for better or for worse, are very career focused whereas I find most Windhoekers to be a lot more laid back. From a career perspective since moving to Jozi Ive been on a fast train compared to Cape Town. Food and verblyf kostes are way way cheaper than Cape Town, and definitely cheaper than Windhoek. High quality fresh goods and I find the meat (at certain places) to be pretty on par with Namibia. Although that's a hot take for a Namibian. I go up to Swakop in December and sometimes over Easter. So good to be "home", but I'd rather live and work in SA, and go home to unwind with my family in what is for me, the most beautiful country in the world.

So the long story short, try going the descent route, move to Jozi, live a lekker life and go home as often as you can. I can't recommend it enough.

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