Great post P. As I have retired, I cannot take a 50% dip but I might still survive if I change my eating habits by eating what my food ate and chucking in a tin of cheap tuna with Chinese 1 minute noodles.
This should bring my monthly expenditure down to R7k pm from the R9k. I have gone off red meat anyway and am on a low carb diet so no beer or beans on toast for me.
I am not a prophet of doom and gloom but here is a YT video posted 10 days ago of an interview with a global economist that accurately predicted the 2007 crash. What he predicts here has perhaps begun now bearing in mind that he said "in 2 weeks time" 10 days ago.
Watch from 21:20