Just go home…
They have no nest egg left over for the usual end-of-year holidays. The booming trade of past Novembers and Decembers that helped to create a 13th check or a small bonus is not on the cards either this year.
Holiday bookings made last year in hope and excitement have had to be cancelled. The old beach buggy with a new layer of paint in canary yellow is no longer around, and neither are the beloved off-road caravan, extensive camping gear, mountain bikes, kayaks and fishing rods.
All of it, along with other material luxuries, had to be sold to pay school fees, put
