Residents interested only in service delivery
THE current conundrum in the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality is hard-hitting to us as a community, as this power struggle tampers with service delivery.
Municipality must jack up security for park
WHAT a pity that yet another great Port Elizabeth tradition seems to be slipping from our grasp. The Mannville theatre in St George’s Park is well known to thousands of matric pupils who have eagerly flocked to watch their setwork Shakespeare every year at this time.
Thank you to league
WE should like to extend our congratulations and thanks to the Animal Anti-Cruelty League. Over the past two weekends it has held spayathons at its Cleary Park Clinic, and managed to treat and sterilise 102 animals during this time.
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R300m could be huge boost
IT is great to see young people being able to swing golf clubs on the new Uitenhage Golf Club facility (“In the swing”, February 13).
ANC lion loses its roar
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ROAD safety, what a joke. Potholelizabeth’s roads are stuffed, with dongas and bushes encroaching on roads. Viva ANC, congratulations on your 100 years of corruption and no progress.
Township schools face many challenges
WITH reference to the letter, “Let us help fix the schools crisis” (January 26), the writer sounds like somebody who does not understand the true state of facts between ex-Model C schools and township schools.
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SOUTH Africans’ sick obsession with sport enables them to (expensively) sublimate their life realities. Piet Naude, you are spot-on!
Education on abuse needed
IT was with the utmost astonishment and horror that I read the report, “Animal cruelty case dropped” (February 6). According to East London SPCA manager Lionel Taylor, there was ample evidence to support the case.
Mbeki still has contribution to make
THERE’s been a pretty impressive debate on the dubbed “Thabo Mbeki’s second coming” and interesting views have since been advanced. There have been some suggestions that he needs to keep the stature of the statesman and stay permanently outside of internal party politics.
Ditch alliance, form new party
MANY, many years ago my mentor told me, “If the boss steals, the staff think that they are entitled to steal as well”.
Mess no way to honour the dead
WHAT a disgusting, despicable mess the Forest Hill graveyard in Port Elizabeth has become. Is this the way to honour our dearly departed?
The plight of the poor rhino
Run for enjoyment
IT seems Piet Naude is either stirring again, or has some definite limitations in his appreciation of what sport is about (“Mass events with selfish goals”, February 7). In particular, his costing estimates belie the fact that he is obviously used to the good life, and wouldn’t consider doing anything at the level of a mere commoner.
Nonsense to suggest only one way to moral life
ONE gets the impression Piet Naude is running out of ideas. In his column, “Mass events with selfish goals” (February 7), he takes casual sideswipes at slimming products, supplements, patriarchal psychology and the desire people have to look attractive physically.
hank you to cops for rescuing disturbed man
I’M writing this letter to show my gratitude to and admiration for three constables of Humewood police.
Rather be a competitor than sloth
I AGREE with Piet Naude that participation in sport is an exclusive activity, available only to the privileged (“Mass events with selfish goals”, February 7).
Community also has role in teaching kids
THERE is one factor we should consider when tackling the education system in our country: that is learning begins at home. The teaching of a child is a collective effort, where everybody plays his part in the upbringing of a child.
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Court once housed town’s poor
ONE cannot help but dwell on the past with the irreparable damage apartheid brought about on fellow South Africans, the coloureds and Africans.
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DEAR Jub Jub. There is a vacancy in the DA for a tea boy. The tea lady has been promoted to parliament.
Must be able to discipline their children
I HAVE read press reports about the lack of corporal punishment in homes and schools. It is very sad.
Writing about abuse brings it into open
KAZEKA Mashologu Kuse, you are to be commended for your columns speaking out against the sexual victimisation of young black women in the business world (“Businessmen think you’re fair game, young woman”, January 31).
Municipal spin doctor must go
I AM referring to Roland Williams’s letter, “Report tabled in council last year” (February 6). Why does this highly paid municipal official not provide the true facts pertaining to this fruitless and wasteful expenditure? Why are we paying him from the public purse to mislead the very people who pay his salary?
SA people suffer because of Eskom’s incompetence
THE problem with our world is that it seems to be endlessly bountiful from an individual perspective, a planet where every whim can be satisfied.
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