REPLIES TO READERS’ COMMENTS
LINDY Steyn Dewar, it seems insensitive to reminisce about the “good old days” (Facebook comments, June 12), when most South Africans have very disturbing memories of the old days. While you were “window shopping”, most South Africans were rushing to be off the street (after washing our dinner dishes) to avoid being thrown into the back of a police pickup van and locked up in prison.
While you were “freely playing in the park and riding your bike without a worry in the world”, the state was torturing Steve Biko at SAPS on Main Road, Walmer. And as a group of school children marched peacefully to protest against being forced to study in Afrikaans, the police opened fire on them.
Nelson Mandela and thousands of others were in prison or in exile. Of course that doesn’t mean we are not shocked and distressed when a cyclist is badly injured and robbed in 2018. Indeed we despair at how violent our society still is!
I’M OKAY JACK I FULLY agree with the Khans’ letter about St George’s Park (“Make our park more attractive to visitors”, June 11), but in addition the criminals need to be cleared out of the park. On the public holiday in March, our family (six adults) were taking photographs of our six-month-old baby in front of the conservatory when we were approached from three sides by men with guns.
We had to lie on our faces while they robbed us of four cellphones and all the camera equipment. Please be careful when in the park.
LS SCREWTAPE (“Other pressing issues”, June 13), it’s not being fixated about same-sex marriages, but that to sanction something against God’s Word is not being a good shepherd and is divisive, and as you rightly indicate, there are seemingly more problems than answers. This is because people water down the truth to make themselves better instead of subscribing to the higher love that is intended, instead of being incorrectly opinionated and that is the challenge.
It’s either truth or truth decay. Further, John the Baptist was the greatest [prophet] that lived and he lost his head speaking against adultery, which shows that the liberty of true law has greatness in part. Also Nelson Mandela became great knowing one should not discriminate between people as God loves all but hates what they do, however, when the fruits show.
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