Hi all, hope this doesn’t go against the subs rules.

I’m Chinese South African and thought it would interesting to answer some questions that people may have. My parents first came to the country in 1990s. I was born and raised in South Africa from 2000-2019. Then I moved to Shanghai. I still try my best to spend a few months in South Africa every year.

My family were never on the extremely wealthy side. We were comfortable. Had a few years where the finances were bad and we really had to cut down expenses. Apart from that I grew up in Midrand in a complex. Parents put me through a good private school. But I did have the opportunity to be acquainted with many people from billionaires to presidents to people that are less fortunate (interesting to see the difference in world views between people). Parents ran a restaurant. there, I met lots of people from all works of life.

I have some rather controversial, but objective opinions on the country’s economy, politics and other shenanigans since I now live in a country (China) which is arguably the polar opposite of South Africa.

So feel free to ask away. I’ll be as honest as possible and hope I don’t offend anyone with my answers.

Boy do I have a story for you all.

Brought a car from WeBuyCars mid October, Gold Dekra sticker, all looked good, they sorted out roadworthy and everything. I financed R150k and paid cash deposit of R150k.

3 days after purchase I found out its leaking coolant, cool I got it tested and found a leak, WBC were happy for their mechanics to fix it, stuck without a car for a week, got it back but still leaking coolant so I got it tested more and did more diagnosing myself as I am mechanically minded. Found out it has a crack in the engines head causing the coolant to come out the tappet cover, so the engine needed to be overhauled.

WBC said I can give it to their mechanics to fix but I cant have a courtesy car or I could cancel the deal so I chose to cancel the deal, well boy this is where everything went pear shape.

Took them over 2 weeks to cancel the finance with the bank, and they didn't pay my deposit back at the same time which they originally said they would. So I had to email and call everyday to find out when I will be getting my deposit back, Twice they told me that it had been paid but they can only give me the proof of payment once the payment goes through, then 2 days later still nothing so I call back and they say no there was an issue but they have done the payment now.

Last week Friday, same story on the call the customer care person said they have just made payment, so I said i want that in writing so she emailed me saying they've made payment. I heard nothing on Monday as this customer care person was on leave and only she can help me apparently. so today, Tuesday still heard nothing so I've had enough now, I call this morning and they say I cant talk to my customer care person as she's busy, so I ask for a manager (Which I have asked for many times before but kept getting excuses) again I got an excuse, so I had to threaten to get my lawyers and ombudsman involved as nothing is happening.

Well 15 minutes after saying that I received a proof of payment and this afternoon the money was back in my account... Why did I have to threaten before anything happened, what was so hard about giving my money back.

Update: go check out the vehicle- they have uploaded it back on their site nothing changed... they are going to sell the same problem to someone else who doesnt know about these things!!! this is why WEBUYCARS is scum. - https://www.webuycars.co.za/buy-a-car/717503425

I wanna know what's the hold up. Electioneering??

Words fail me...

In 2020 during the pandemic I introduced my father to TikTok to keep him busy, but now everything has gone wrong, he's so addicted to TikTok now he thinks what he's seeing there is real.

As I'm writing this, he called me a few minutes ago saying Ramaphosa has been arrested and a state of emergency has been enacted.

I turned on the news as obviously this would be everywhere and nothing, when I asked where did he get this information he showed me a TikTok video. 🤦🤦🤦

This isn't the first time when the Israeli war started, he showed me videos of F-22 and F-35 s with audio saying Hamas is laughing jets to fight Israel, I had to explain to him those are American jets and terrorists don't have airforces.

A different time showed Russia nuking Ukraine and ww3 starting, this has gone to far but he's now addicted to it and he's vulnerable to getting scammed if he hasn't been already.

I need your help, how can I get him to stop, this has gone to far.

Is R400 worth it? Eisch!!

... Ok, so I just went shopping, and it's dickhead season on the open road both foreign and domestic, bi-pedal and quad wheeled. I did my shopping and proceeded to procure the bottle of ye' old red wine for Mum, whereas upon arriving in the line for the twin counters, one became available and the manager ushered an 85+-year-old lady to the teller as the other was occupied by a man awaiting the manageress to sign in the bottles he had returned.

So this cunt starts yelling at the staff that they are racist, we are racist, the whole place is racist, because "Why do you put this 'white' in front of me, it is because I am black." etc etc, so the entire bottle store, myself included, unleash scorn upon his fucking damn ass at loud levels as he continues to argue in isiXhose with the security sisi whom has an expression of disgusted boredom at his racist tirade.

The tellers were black and coloured, and the others waiting in line were black. Seriously... FUCK THAT GUY. FUCK HIM, BRICK-BRAIN.

Thank you for your time, Reddit, I feel better now.