05-30-2009, 05:31 PM
Sipho and Jonas are both beggars at several highway off ramps.
Sipho drives a Mercedes, lives in a mortgage-free house in Sandton, and has a lot of money to spend.
Jonas only brings in R20 to R30 a day.
Jonas asks Sipho how he manages to bring home a suitcase full of R10 notes every day.
Sipho says: "look at your sign, it says, ' I have no work, a wife and six kids to support. '
South Africans who see that do not feel as if they accomplish anything by giving you money.
You will still have no job and a large family. Now look at my sign."
So Jonas looks and Sipho's sign reads,
'I only need another R10 to move back to Zimbabwe '
Sipho drives a Mercedes, lives in a mortgage-free house in Sandton, and has a lot of money to spend.
Jonas only brings in R20 to R30 a day.
Jonas asks Sipho how he manages to bring home a suitcase full of R10 notes every day.
Sipho says: "look at your sign, it says, ' I have no work, a wife and six kids to support. '
South Africans who see that do not feel as if they accomplish anything by giving you money.
You will still have no job and a large family. Now look at my sign."
So Jonas looks and Sipho's sign reads,
'I only need another R10 to move back to Zimbabwe '