SOCIAL media has been exploding after a young lady (I am assuming she is still young) posted on a social media page that her boyfriend had proposed to her with a P299 engagement ring bought from an online shopping app.

This started a debate among netizens on whether engagement rings should be expensive or should the thought of proposing be enough. This also inspired different takes on the social and economic constructs and implications of giving an expensive piece of metal or stone to accompany the offer of marriage to a prospective life partner.