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I took my wife to work this morning on our normal quiet route through the suburbs. I have never seen so many walkers, joggers, cyclists and people walking their dogs at this time of the morning on this route. Simple freedoms are so important!

Milton

There are too many cockamamie flip-flops being made by politicians who are becoming power drunk. They allow us to go outside and cycle, jog and walk during a mere three hours a morning. Then, they are surprised and disapproving when some roads look like the Tour de France or Comrades Marathon between 6am and 9am.

Jenny Sterne

Pravin Gordhan says a new state company will rise like a phoenix from SAA. Warren Buffett sells all his shares in American airline industries. BA retrenches 12 000, Virgin Australia sold. And he thinks the new company can keep the staff. Laughable.

Big red

The ban on the sale of cigarettes is bizarre. We all know that cigarette smoking is dangerous, but it’s not the government’s call to decide if people can smoke or not. Individuals decide for themselves. The ban on alcohol boggles the mind, too. What’s wrong with buying liquor and drinking at home?

Eric Mathye

The triumvirate of Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Ebrahim Patel and top cop Bheki Cele would do well to remember that they are public servants whose salaries are paid by the taxpayers of this country. They should not be forcing their views on adult citizens by prescribing whether people can drink or smoke in their own homes.

Mike

The reason the ANC government is making all these draconian lockdown rules is that they are fearing that they are going to lose voters to the Covid-19 virus! I don’t think that they really care about the welfare of, as President Cyril Ramaphosa puts it, “our people”. To all of them, “the people” are just voting fodder.

Nicky Oelofse

The business rescue practitioners of South African Airways were never going to be free to do their job. Interference from government and by association the trade unions, saw to that. Liquidation was the only answer.

Graham W

Regarding Cuban doctors: who is making money out of this? I thought Cuban doctors’ medical certificates were not valid here. Who remembers when our students who studied in Cuba could not get a licence to practice here?

Martin F