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GOOD TO SEE GREY BACK FROM INJURY GOOD to see Siyanda Grey back from injury (“Kings targeting home-game wins, says Grey”, February 16). Grey is the only player in the Kings squad I rate good enough to play Super Rugby. If he can stay injury-free, he should be included in the SA sevens squad. A MYBURGH, CENTRAL, PORT ELIZABETH
THE Super Rugby season starts at the end of this month. When can we expect to see this year’s Super Rugby fixtures published in The Herald? BRIAN
THE Super Rugby fixtures will be published ahead of the start of the tournament next Friday. – The Herald sports editor Alvin Reeves UNTIL LEAKS FIXED, WILL WATER WITH HOSE I CANNOT see why I, an 80-year-old woman, should have to carry buckets to my garden when we’ve had a leak in Barkly Street for more than 10 months and a second leak has started lower down. I do have a tank and my monthly usage of municipal water is only 4kl. I shall be watering with a hose until such time as the leaks are fixed. D SWIFT ARRANGE ACCOMMODATION FIRST
“STUDENT housing crisis hits NMMU” (February 16): this is ridiculous. Who goes off to study without sorting out accommodation? READER
WHAT ABOUT TRAVEL AGENTS? “COMAIR wins R1bn in SAA court case” (February 16): seeing the courts are finding against SAA’s anti-competitive conduct, what about those travel agents who accepted money from SAA during this period? If SAA is guilty on both counts, surely the same applies to the travel agents that colluded with SAA? Just asking. LEG FOAM IN THE BAAKENS RIVER
THERE has been foam as high as the bridge in the Baakens at the Third Avenue dip for three days now. Any explanation? MC
LAND TRANSFORMATION URGENT PEOPLE urged to choose land instead of money: that is a good idea, Mr President. That is what they fought for, but it cannot be limited to an agricultural piece of land. When we talk about land we also include space, oceans where there is wealth in fishing and land that produces mineral resources (the mines), to name but a few. If in the agricultural sector, that alone requires a lot to debate because it involves skills, apparatus, the masses themselves and assistance from the department itself.
So, to give land to the masses without having considered the implications is the same as dangling the carrot till 2019 and beyond. Radical transformation is the last resort and if has not materialised this time around, I imagine the kind of society we would be living in. ZWELINZIMA KA MATYU HOW SAFE IS OUR MUNICIPAL TAP WATER?
HOW safe is our tap water from the municipality? What diseases are we contracting [from it]? Look at the number of people getting cancer in PE. TONY
REPLIES TO READERS’ COMMENTS REGARDING the calls from “Microsoft” (“Callers told that Jesus watched”, February 16), I usually tell the caller that I don’t own a computer, which seems to satisfy him or her. On Wednesday, I answered by loudly asking, “What do you want?”, to which a voice replied, also loudly, “Your money!”. And the call was cut off. Now we know.
J LE ROUX
FULLY agree with Eyes open (“Traffic problems”, February 15). Wake up traffic department and please do something about the hooligan taxi drivers, especially along our beachfront and up Admiralty Way in Summerstrand! They do as they like and cause total havoc on the roads. BH IN reply to Eyes open, taxi drivers are a problem all over PE. NMMU wants to build a massive taxi rank in Gommery Avenue, Summerstrand, on the corner between two places that care for disabled persons in wheelchairs, Cape Recife School and Cheshire Home. Taxi drivers use that road as a racetrack. Objections have been made from both parties, but it seems it all has fallen on deaf ears. No sympathy for the disabled. MELVIN HUMPEL
I FULLY agree with Eyes open. Traffic officials will catch drivers at 6.45am rolling through stop streets, yet taxis drive through red robots, overtake in the wrong lane and stop where they like in Cape Road in the Mill Park area. Come on Mr Mayor, I agree, open your eyes to this major problem. ROB, MILL PARK, PORT ELIZABETH FOLLOWING Eyes open’s chirp regarding painting lines on the road (“Paint lines on road”, February 14), I would like to suggest that the traffic department urgently paints new lines in Brickmakers Kloof. The lines aren’t very visible and when it’s raining, are asking for an accident to happen. STEPH
W BENJAMIN, you complain about D R Galloway (“Expect value for my money”, February 15). By the looks of it, it appears The Herald has become the official paper to boost Athol Trollip. I don’t want to see him in every day’s The Herald. I also want value for my money. LENA