Rules and Regulations

I can understand why some people in this country either consciously or unconsciously bend the rules to get by in life....it is because there are so many of them and they are complicated by ifs, buts and maybes....

We are living in a society where we are brainwashed into thinking that rules and regulations are put into place for the benefit of we the citizen, but how can that be when half the time we don't understand the whys and wherefores and if we try to access what rightfully belongs to us we have to fill in a million forms, make declarations, send in certified copies signed by commissioners of oaths and otherwise prove that we are who we say we are...

How many people agree that since RICA and FICA came into effect, we have less privacy than ever and have been inundated with adverts and sales pitches from companies that we have never had dealings with in the past....where do these people find our details, ie: name attached to a phone number, if it is not from now having our RICA and FICA details made public.  Yet you go to your cell phone provider with a problem and have to immediately provide them with all the pertinent documentation to prove you are RICA'd...why?....because they do not have that information available to them!!!!!

To own your own business in this country you have to register with this board and that board, know who your union is, comply with labour law, register for UIF and then you start with SARS....oh my word and do anything wrong and everyone comes down on you like a ton of bricks and you are left with fines and interest and penalties and the list just goes on and on.

So who is kidding who here....who is the one really benefiting from all these rules and regulations....me thinks it is not the consumer, the man in the street or the the regular Joe Soap but those that sit and make up all these things to complicate our lives.  Do the right thing and hit your head against a brick wall every time....

**** This whole blog came about by problems we are having with the Trust and the status given by SARS....just to hand out Section 18A certificates to people who have generously made contributions and have asked for such, is turning into a more complicated matter than ever expected...and at the end of the day we may just be handing over money from the trust to the secondary beneficiaries before NiQi even gets to have a transplant.....

So you see even though it took F-O-R-E-V-E-R to have the trust properly set up and registered, life just gets more complicated.....


**** this is my own interpretation of the facts and I stand to be corrected, however due to my layman status and the volume of rules and regulations set out to obtain either NPO or PBO status from the TEU at SARS, this is the way I understand it.