YOUR CHIRPS

DON’T SUPPORT THESE PASTORS

DAG Heward-Mills (“Women also in firing line”, January 24): is this another Ted Haggard situation? While we must condemn Heward-Mills’s destructive words and support Somizi, isn’t it time for people to stop being so gullible? Stop supporting paparazzi pastors and charlatans, stop lining their pockets. If you want to worship God, find a place where you will be accepted as you are. Visit Mariya uMama we Themba Monastery in Grahamstown or join Alan Storey at the Central Methodist Church in Cape Town. Paparazzi pastors must fall. SCREWTAPE

HATE SPEECH ISSUE WILL DESTROY SOCIETY

NO, Nwabisa Makunga, hate speech is much more than a “thorny issue” (“Hate speech a thorny issue”, January 25). It is the product of the tiny minority of over-the-top politically correct people (mostly far to the left whites). It will destroy society as people will be too scared to say anything just in case it hurts some over-sensitive, chip-on-shoulder leftie. JURIST

MOSQUITO PROBLEM

WHEN the world is in turmoil, The Herald has as its headline that there are mozzie attacks in Missionvale (“Massive mozzie misery”, January 25)! Get real guys, you actually have a long-standing brand and not a trashy tabloid. IAN

MOSQUITO problem, bat solution. Embrace it, Mthubanzi Mniki. Why do you need legal compliance to get rid of pests (insects)? C BRENT

I AM absolutely astounded how anyone in 2017 is still polluting the earth with his or her trash. Oh, I suppose it is apartheid’s fault. READER

THE mozzie situation is the residents’ own fault! If they use refuse bags and keep their suburbs clean, this won’t happen. CHARMAINE T

THE Herald front page news about the mosquitoes makes me laugh. The very people complaining are the ones whose rubbish it is. OBSERVER

FIX VALLEY ROAD POTHOLE

COME on municipality! For quite a while there has been a huge pothole just on the curve in Valley Road past the MBDA building (old ice skating rink). Watch out! Fix it please. R VACZI, HUMEWOOD, PORT ELIZABETH

STOP SLAUGHTER OF DONKEYS

GOD gave us humans authority over animals, and it seems China has the say over our rhino, elephants and now our donkeys, and who knows what else? Jesus rode on a donkey! Stop all the slaughtering! SARAH

TRUMP KNOWS ZUMA’S A NOTHING

JACOB Zuma, stop talking s***. Donald Trump knows you are a nothing. LOGIE

SHOULD INSIST ON PUBLIC DEBATES

IF the ANC is divided between Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and Cyril Ramaphosa as its next leader, then surely as it follows that the winner will also lead the country, we should insist on a series of public debates between the two. MALCOLM DODDS, SHERWOOD, PORT ELIZABETH

REPLIES TO READERS’ COMMENTS

I CAN only wonder what Andrew, the proud Central resident, was doing going for a drive at 5am on a Saturday morning (“Drunk patrons: action needed”, January 24)? CURIOUS

READERS like Dallas Oesterlein (“If you attend university, you must pay fees”, January 25) should realise that we as blacks will continue to be enslaved if tertiary education is not free. Due to the dehumanising of our parents, we cannot afford it. RESIDENT

RICHMOND Hill: totally agree with Tired of excuses (“Refer to suburb as slum now”, January 23). Area getting worse and worse. SRA a waste of money and as for the ward councillor! Oh why bother. PAUL WATTS

”BECOME part of solution in SRA” (January 25): Ed Richardson, what are you smoking? The drug and crime problem is still very much alive in Richmond Hill. Breaking into garages, dealing in drugs and drunkenness in Cooper Street, Richmond Hill, is on-going. I attended your so-called public meeting and I could hardly believe the way the meeting was addressed by some chairperson who could hardly open his mouth and kept staring down at his notes. Why are so many properties for sale in the area? A MYBURGH, RICHMOND HILL, PORT ELIZABETH

YES, D R Galloway (“Stop criticising president”, January 24), may God help us. Only He will know why The Herald keeps on publishing your monotonous pontification of Zupta. HANNES VAN NIEKERK, PORT ELIZABETH

DEAR D R Galloway. What gall do you have to write to the readers of The Herald to stop criticising our honourable President Jacob Zuma? It’s our democratic right to do that if he fails on every issue. DEMOCRAT

PROFESSOR KNOWS IT ALL

SO the education professor knows it all! Solutions to northern area schools problems (“Good results in matric start with the foundation phase”, January 17)! EXPERIENCED EDUCATOR