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FOCUS ON ESSENTIALS
I hope the decision makers in our municipality takes note of the advice from minister Gugile Nkwinti to focus its resources on boreholes and desalination projects (“Explore boreholes, desalination, metro told”, July 13). And also to get its house in order in terms of having enough people who are capable of doing repairs and fixing water leaks.
Y WILLIAMS
THANKS TO RESCUERS
The headline of your editorial of Friday July 13, “Thai rescue renews faith in humanity”, focuses on key elements of our common humanity, namely compassion and courage.
The motive force is God’s amazing selflessness and is expressed in the commandment, “Love your neighbour as yourself”.
These are amazing qualities that flow from unconditional love and help to keep our green lights.
Thanks to those brave men and women for bringing hope and joy to humanity in the spirit of St Dominic, who lived more than eight centuries ago and whose feast day is on August 8. God is good.
D R GALLOWAY, NELSON MANDELA BAY
GET RID OF HIM
“‘Go to Trollip’s office, use toilet’ ” (July 11): Mongameli Bobani, Athol Trollip should flush you down his office toilet. You are indeed a clown! LOGIE
ARROGANT RAVINGS
EFF dictators in waiting! The arrogant and ignorant ravings in the EFF letter published in The Herald on July 9 (“DA must remove councillor Louw”) show exactly who and what they are. Racist, doublestandard
people who have loudmouth Julius Malema as their “leader”. SANDY
LOOTING IS STEALING
Please ditch, discard, ban the use of the word loot. Call it what it is. It is stealing, finish and klaar.
EVE LAW
GOOD LUCK
“Time to impose order on our streets” (July 16): good luck with getting a response from the mayor’s PA! MAD MOLLY
USE WASTED SPACE
Jotter (“Jotter space reduced”, July 16)? Use the wasted space of the header in the new “tweaked” formats foisted on us. HOODWINKED NEAR
EX-SUBSCRIBER
READYING FOR ZUMAS
Prison upgrade: is the department of correction services busy with an Nkandla-type upgrade regarding a prison family suite for the Zumas in Durban? WALTER
SUPPORT LACKING
Ramaphoria (ANC) has failed the EC and will struggle to capture KZN, a Premier League site. Viva UDM, down DA.
JONAH STUURMAN,
DESPATCH
MAINLY WHITE
Why has The Herald chosen to have seven white editors and one deputy editor? READER
LOAN SHARKS
Loan sharks in the northern areas are in total control of SAPS. They scare the hell out of SAPS. They [allegedly] order vehicles randomly for weekend breakaways.
ANOTHER READER