DEPLORABLE ACT A NAIL IN YOUR OWN COFFINS

TO WILLEM Oosthuizen and Theo Martins Jackson, you need to know how much and how passionately South Africans disapprove of your alleged shocking treatment of Rethabile Mlotshwa!

The word shocking cannot possibly describe my utter disgust – your act was despicable, deplorable and totally unacceptable. It was right you were arrested.

I don’t understand what motivated you, nor what you hoped to achieve.

If your appalling behaviour was racially-based, you need to know that most whites in the country think you’re fools and you have little, if any, support.

If it was religiously motivated, then I can’t say there is any recognised religion which would approve – do you even have a religion?

However, if this deplorable act was in the name of some political endeavour, you are in dire need of re-education. If you don’t agree with, or don’t want to fit into a truly free and liberated society, then you need to re-plan your life.

This type of mentality is the cause of so many tragedies in this country.

Do you realise that it’s primitive and unprogressive thinking like yours which makes the vast majority of white South Africans hang their heads in shame?

Hylton Swemmer

I REFER TO the letter submitted by Roslyn Cassidy, “White privilege is very real and something that can’t be denied” (the Saturday Star, November 11): It is true that the “white man” made some grave mistakes with devastating consequences, but what’s happening today isn’t much better. With comments like Julius Malema’s on “slaughtering white people”, the country doesn’t stand a chance. The perpetuation of anger and hatred is no solution.

We need to work together to help make things right. Not all whites supported apartheid in the past.

Di Franzsen

A FEW observations on the Boks’ poor performance:

1. Lack of communication: players don’t talk to and encourage each other. There’s no communication between the scrumhalf and flyhalf; flyhalf and centres, etc. The captain is not cajoling, encouraging or planning moves.

2. Lack of tactics: no planned moves on attack from the line-outs, scrums, rucks. 3. Ball handling: putrid. 4. Reflex action non-existent. 5. More speed work needed: players far too slow and lethargic.

6. Cut warm-up sessions by half: players tired before the game starts. 7: Players don’t read the game. So go for broke Toetie – win or lose.

JR Whitlock

IT IS tragic that in the aftermath of the US elections, Muslims across the world are being demonised and victimised. When one examines the West’s fear of Islam, it is difficult, if not impossible to justify it. It was Patrick J Buchanan who presciently said in 1990: “To some Americans, searching for a new enemy against whom to test their mettle and power, after the death of com- HATS OFF to Sipho K Chipiwa for his letter (Saturday Star, November 19) and its superbly crafted vein of sarcasm directed at each of our “true heroes”. I could add a few more names but that would only serve to dilute the true heroism of those who featured so prominently in his letter. In the same edition, John Whitlock’s comments on Julius Malema are a precise and compact narrative of all that is representative of the young Julius.

Costa Anousakis