What a joy to visit Bay!

AFTER six years away, I have recently visited my old home town of Port Elizabeth. What a joy!

Still lovely clean beaches, and a visit to the Campanile and the Tramways building was a delight. Congratulations to all.

Regrettably, though, my old home suburb of Richmond Hill is another matter.

Does no one care? Filthy streets, prostitutes and I am told drug sales appear to be the rule.

A visit to Stanley Street was a once-only – again filthy pavements, beggars, etc.

Such a shame – can the owners of the eating establishments not do something about this?

I stayed with friends in Mackay Street and here, too, troubles appear.

In the service lane between Mackay and Irvine streets there dwells a beggar and his companion in abject filth.

Two dogs, one a pitbull, roam the lane and their excrement lies unattended to.

I was informed by my friends that complaints had been made to the owner of the house concerned and to the municipality, to no avail. But not all is negative. Bay folk are still as friendly as ever, air clean and great shopping centres. Just what a woman like me enjoys.

Thanks to my dear friends and to all others in Port Elizabeth for a good three weeks. I will be back.

Daphe Deyzel, Kensington, Johannesburg