Proudly South Africa
Proudly South Africa or PSA was a program that aided the prospect of locally owned companies and ORGs.
History
The PSA was a SA Government program to help promote SA Companies and ORGs. This program was thought up during the 2nd Republic of SA as many companies in our market were foreign. Buying goods from foreign companies helped to create a very hostile monetary market for the ZAR. Today we have a rate around 
60 ZAR to 
1 Gold, but back in the 2nd Republic that was closer to 120 ZAR to 1 Gold. The PSA is a way to assist SA citizens to buy domestic products, thus growing the economy by increasing the flow of the ZAR in the country and not sending hard-earned cash out to foreign-owned companies. And by increasing domestic sales these companies can upgrade and even hire more workers.
What PSA does:
- Locates SA Owned & Operated companies.
- Promotes SA Owned & Operated companies.
- Increases tax reserves by purchasing domestic products.
- Promotes job security thru the above.
- Promotes more efficient companies, as they need workers to fill their orders.
- Promotes every product that is available here in eRepublik and will change when the ADMINs make their next update to the marketplace.
What PSA does NOT:
- Does NOT fix wages (we rely on Free Market)
- Does NOT fix taxes on any product (this is the decision of Congress)
- Does NOT show favorites to any company.
- Does NOT take requests or anything that will undermine this program.
PSA RULES
1. PSA is strictly for SA citizens and companies ONLY! If you change your citizenship, your company will be delisted from the PSA-approved list. (Which will be posted once a week in this paper or MoI paper). ORGs can move, but companies cannot so ORG placement is not mandatory in SA, only the company! No foreign-based companies are eligible, companies must reside inside SA borders.
2. PSA is strictly against any PRICE FIXING or PRICE GOUGING. After 2 offences in 2 months (60 days) and the offending company will be Temp-Banned from PSA for 90 Days. Any offence within 45 days after reinstatement and the offending company will be Perm-Banned.
- 2a. During times of Crisis, ANY company involved in PRICE FIXING or PRICE GOUGING will be PROMPTLY removed from the PSA. Any appeal will be looked into 2 weeks after a crisis. NOTE: War, PTO and so on... the above rule will be superseded
3. PSA is against Unethical Hiring Practices. If a PSA member hires at say 50 ZAR and then reduces pay to 10 ZAR we will give 3 warnings before the offending company is Perma-Banned from PSA.
- 3a. In times of Economical Attacks (foreign workers working at low wellness), the PSA is for lowering all wages to no higher than 5x minimum wage for ALL Skill Levels for a short period to fight off such Econ Attacks.
4. Government programs and departments will look for PSA companies first, but will also look for a good price. PSA will not be used to influence their choice, if this is attempted, an immediate 10 day temp-ban will be placed on the offending company.
- 4a. All government ORGs are requested to join the PSA, the fee is waived as is the watermark.
5. If any member is not satisfied with PSA advertising within 30 days of joining all money will be refunded. (As all money is donated Zagarius will pay these refunds from his personal account. Once the company leaves it cannot return for 60 days.)
6. As a result of the ever-increasing number of companies a fee of 10 ZAR will now be charged for each company that joins, regardless if they come from the same ORG.
These rules are subject to change, but any changes will not go into effect for 5 days from date of posting.
Membership
Some of the members of the PSA were:
