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STATE CAPTURE TO BLAME

Regarding the SAA crisis and petrol price increases, these are a direct result of state capture. They have nothing to do with the capitalist system, and everything to do with state control and cadre deployment.

ALAN WILSON, PORT ELIZABETH

BRILLIANT OPINION ARTICLES

Vuyo Mvoko (“ANC top leadership shown up”) and Sikonathi Mantshants­ha (“Can’t trust politician­s to see to people’s interests”) on Friday November 16: brilliant reading. Two of the most honest and straightfo­rward written articles I’ve read this year. Just a pity the rest of the country can’t read it in their own languages and local newspapers.

YAP YAP, BLUEWATER BAY, PORT ELIZABETH

SEWAGE SPILL STILL NOT FIXED

On November 7 I reported to the Nelson Mandela municipali­ty a manhole spilling sewage at Ntlane Street, Joe Slovo West (Nkandla), a health hazard situation – reference number 1109630. Called the municipali­ty again on November 13 and 15 to report the same problem. Shockingly no one has attended to it. KUSTA ANC MISUSES COMMUNITY In “ANC youth clash with Bay mayor” (November 16), now Luyolo Nqakula boasts that the rolling mass action against the NMBM coalition was initiated, led and sustained by the ANC Youth League, proving yet again how the ANC misuses the needy community for its own ends. NVM

ROBBER DIED BY OWN KNIFE

“Student held after death of robber” (November 19): it’s ridiculous. It sends completely the wrong message. The robber died by his own knife. Case closed! So much unsolved crime to rather deal with.

ENOUGH

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