Got money problems, MPs?

The money to save South Africa is somewhere but, please, parliamentarians, let it not be "found" in our already empty pockets.

- KYLE ZEEMAN

Payday came and went for many employed South Africans this week, leaving them in no better position than they were the week before.

Meanwhile, parliamentarians, who earn salaries and perks worth over R100 000 a month, were fighting over the country's money. A country that on average only pays its workers around a quarter of that — R28 231.

Amid a deadlock, members of parliament's finance committees argued that the budget should be sent back to Treasury to find the money from somewhere other than a value-added tax (VAT) hike.