I am quoting from a previous comment 'as a nation we prefer the politics of entitlement ... with zero responsibility.'  That is the kind of truth that stares us in the face. An 'overall' / general truth. The sum of the behaviour patterns of millions of people. But do all South Africans behave that way? I am not going to tell you how my family who came to this country from Germany in the late 1700s have always been productive and payed their taxes. That is not neccessary. Simple mathematics shows us that an entire population can not be non-productive (or depend on the economic production of others). If, per definition, there are no others. But this is pushing the argument too far. We know there are still producers of wealth. The worrysome fact is that the number of wealth-producers seem to be a dwindling.