I have written quite often about the problems of doing business in South Africa and really they are only escalating.  The first thing you need is certainly patience because if you allow yourself to get completely worked up, you will simply go mad.  It is really becoming a struggle, day to day, to keep a business running and the expenses never stop mounting.  We have suffered with Telkom in recent times, we’ve had Internet issues and of course like everyone we have power issues.  Our fax lines seem to go off all the time and during the last month they probably have not worked for 7 or 8 days.  Our brand new UPS system does not appear to be working after the surge of electricity from the City Council and on the weekend we find it very hard to do work, or to connect to our bookkeeping system because the office server seems to go down every weekend.  One returns home to load shedding almost every day now and essentially we all had to reduce to having no electricity for 3 or 4 hours a day, reporting telephones that are out of order every second or third week and simply trying to deal with the problems as they arise, one after another, and stay calm.  I can genuinely say that they don’t stress me, but they are expensive and whether it is an extra 30 minutes in traffic, because the robots are not working, or two hours lost at the office, they are costing our economy terribly.