Worrisome content

IN YOUR edition of March 2 you pointed out “The country’s poor bear the burden of apartheid urban geography”. You do not mention the ANC pouring poor people into the Cape for election purposes which has caused the slums and water shortage we now experience in the Cape.

Another article, “Unilever facing fine for collusion”, seems to be another deliberate attack on a company which employs thousands and produces very competitive products to our “poor”.

The Professor Xolela Mangcu article does not realise that at least 50 years will be spent with this “decolonisation” time waste. We hope UCT and other universities will get on with the job of educating the masses!

Surely race does not produce professors, only hard work and dedication is necessary. We wish Danielle Allen every success in her future and hope that she will be able to visit us.

Finally “Drop nuclear to power SA” is an unfortunate heading, Koeberg continues for about 20 more years to provide cheap and non degrading power. Wind turbines degrade farms and cover the land with huge blocks of concrete and interconnecting power cables.

Who pays for the removal of this source of intermittent power? Battery backup is very expensive and I remember the banks of batteries in the early days of DC power generation. I also worked in the commissioning of coal-fired plants and the sooner we get rid of coal-fired boilers the better for the sake of “Greenpeace followers”. It is great that Eskom has seen the way forward, but we must get other than Russian nuclear plant offers as well. Brian Gripper Meadowridge