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BRING THE WORLD CUP HOME WE have now reached the knockout stages of the cricket World Cup. I am so exasperated with listening to all the negative comments in the media and the like about our Proteas underperforming blah blah blah. Win or lose, they are our national pride. I am confident they will conquer all before them hereafter. Guys, as Vince Lombardi (that great American college football coach) once remarked, ”Nobodies never get booed”. So when you are ready, why don’t you bring the cup home! Best of success.

WARREN MYBURGH PETER, I totally agree about cricketers spitting. How can the coaches and ICC condone it? Dock them one run per spit. Is this how they act in their homes?

EVE

RATHER BLAME THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT PEOPLE should stop blaming Livingstone Hospital for bad service, it’s just a building. Rather put the blame on the people who work at the Health Department. The doctors are great, I salute you all under the conditions you work. May God bless you all and patients, please be patient!

GRANY I

COLUMN WELL WRITTEN FLOYD’S Call is well written, so good to read a quality article.

A SIKANI

CAR ALLEGEDLY TRAVELLING AT HIGH SPEED COLLINS Chabane accident: the car must’ve been travelling at a speed not to have been able to slow down. Hope there’s a “black box” recorder in the car to check its speed or will that be government top secret too?

MAC

TRAFFIC PROBLEMS YESTERDAY morning, in Ditchling Road, Algoa Park, going towards Young Park taxis were now driving on the pavement to skip the queue of cars! Where are the traffic cops? Furious!

S ERASMUS, PORT ELIZABETH READING about the shooting in Coleus Crescent, Sanctor, it’s just a hell of a mess just to get past the school, travelling down the street, by the time school comes out. I really think there should be some traffic control.

TREVOR

REPLIES TO COMMENTS ON OTHER TOPICS ROSS, you must be a pensioner, got too much time on your hands to write such garbage! The traffic department can’t even cope with the current workload.

RESIDENT “WHY no licences for cyclists?”: no licences should be needed as they aren’t operated with a motor, also they don’t emit any harmful fumes like the cars, etc.

OBSERVER IN reply to the SMS from Errol in The Herald on Friday, whatever your plan, we are right behind you.

LOLLY IN response to the letter from the attempted hijacking victim’s employers, as a victim of 10 break-ins and attempted break-ins over the last two years, I have also in almost all cases where attempts to break in were made (five out of the 10) been discouraged from opening a case. Only after going ballistic in the charge office of the police station were cases opened. My neighbours have had similar experiences. What better way for the SAPS to hide the true crime stats from the public? Everyone knows that crime is out of control and is only getting worse day by day. The only ones in denial are the ANC.

READER I THINK Atheist is not really an atheist, he is just testing the waters. Don’t take his bait, then he will stop fishing.

ANOTHER READER TEACHER asks for bins: put regulations in place that force all taxis to have bins inside their vehicles. Show me a clean taxi rank in PE, pathetic to say the least!

ADRIAAN, BLUEWATER BAY, PORT ELIZABETH

BEACHFRONT WRONG SPOT FOR FISH FARM HAVE these people lost their minds? Why Hobie Beach when you have hundreds of kilometres of “unused” beach to chose from? Please be sensible!

ZOZO

THREATS TO ATTACK WHITE MOTORISTS OFFICIALS Mphumzi Zuzile and Andile Nduna threaten to beat up white drivers? I look forward to the day I run into these two racists on the road and please pull out the iron rod.

WHITEY MPHUMZI Zuzile in his Facebook rant says: “Call me a racist”. OK Mphumzi, “You are a racist”.

ED KIRWIN

SHOULD HAVE INCLUDED SOCCER IN SURVEY SA School Sport magazine missed an opportunity by excluding soccer from its online survey. Soccer is one of the most popular games now played by many schools and should have been included, definitely ahead of water polo. Just saying.

ROMANO MARGON

COURT CASE OVER BURIAL I THINK this woman must allow the family to bury their son and then fight after that.

WATCHER

WELL DONE FOR SPEAKING OUT I SALUTE Babalwa Lobishe for speaking out against alleged corruption at the MBDA meeting without fear or favour. Motsi Mfuleni has shown arrogance and disrespect for a political deployee who is duty bound to protect the interests of the community against any malpractices. Oversight is one of the key roles of political deployees.

D R GALLOWAY

BOUQUETS AND BRICKBATS FOR THE HERALD IT’s great to see the load-shedding schedule in The Herald for “just in case”. Thanks to The Herald.

MS WELL done to the editor. The load-shedding schedules printed on Mondays are big and very clear.

HAPPY READER FINANCE: bring back the Top 40 once a week. The Top 10 is unintelligible without explanation.

STOCKWATCHER

JACOB ZUMA FOLKS, be thankful that JZ and the ANC have no control over the air we breathe otherwise we would all be breathless.

TT ELVIS Presley had Graceland, Jacob Zuma has Disgraceland.

POLITICS COMMENTATOR