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This is a total disgrace. Our once beautiful city is a disgrace with this type of defacing of public property and personal businesses. Beautiful plant pots were put up in Cape Road and other roads, only for these fools to deface them with these adverts. Where are the authorities to curb this?
Surely the authorities can call those numbers and impose fines and they must be forced to clean this mess. Truly embarrassed by this around our city. Our mayor should go around and look at what this city looks like. You should be ashamed.
DISGUSTED The so-called doctors and princes and professors that litter our city with junk stickers should be contacted on their cellphones and forced to remove their stickers from lampposts, litter bins and even road signs (a stop sign on the corner of Newington and Albany roads). This is very dangerous. ANTHONY
STOP LOITERING
Vagrancy laws are mostly responsible for crime and everything else. Loitering should be stopped. BOB
OPERA HOUSE DISAPPOINTMENTS
The Abba show was brilliant – but the Opera House women’s toilets were not pleasant. The fan was not in working order and a socket outlet was hanging out of wall. The area is not safe. Drunk car guards. Waiting for someone to be attacked.
C P, SOUTH END, PORT ELIZABETH
COLUMN A BROKEN RECORD
Pedro Mzileni: I am sure the young man means well. He is, however, a broken record. His continuous bleats about black inequality, free education, free healthcare, free insurance, etc are getting to be a bit much.
Perhaps the young man should rather “ask not what my country can do for me, but what I can do for my country”. Or instead of just expecting everything free, he can urge people to work for it. Good luck.
ED
WELL DONE ON LIBRARY OPENING
Well done to the staff of Newton Park Library for opening on a Saturday morning from 9 to 12. I am sure the public will appreciate it a lot. PAT SCHEEPERS
HIT NAIL ON THE HEAD
I feel that Prof Norman Kemp has hit the nail on the head (“Unions allowed to run riot”, February 26). By relying on the unions for votes and influence the ANC has made itself ineffective in dealing with any form of labour matter to save Eskom, SAA or any other entity that needs restructuring.
READER
WILL RENOVATIONS HAPPEN?
Wow, nothing done to renovate our RDP houses at KwaDwesi Ext. I will see if I vote.
N B Z, DWESI EXTENSION, PORT ELIZABETH
PE CONTESTANT ON YOUTUBE
Did you see PE girl Nikki van Niekerk on The Voice SA on Sunday? On YouTube if you didn’t. MUSIC FAN
GET HELP FROM WESTERN CAPE
The DA says the unemployment rate in Cape Town is 23%. The national average is 37%. If this is true, why will we still be voting for any other party? As a province we are so poor, we need the expertise of the Western Cape to get us out of the doldrums. Why reinvent the wheel?
GRANNY GREY
SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS
Am I mistaken or was Wednesday’s front page article (“Beef up security – Bobani”) an early April Fools’ joke? Does the mayor really expect us to believe a passive gunman entered City Hall, was there for more than six hours and when he got to his appointment with the mayor, he was not asked his name?
He who is nameless shall be blameless! Just maybe Bobani is using this as a ploy to re-employ his friends at Afrisec.
JAY-JAY
Dear Mr Mayor. All municipal buildings need security. Now that you’ve been targeted, insource the companies that did the security. People are sitting at home and staff must work in dangerous conditions.
DESU
Mayor Mongameli Bombani, a week ago we were the safest city. What a joker you are.
THE BULL
Mongameli Bobani’s security: what’s all the beef about? The man told you himself how safe the city is. His bodyguards and security detail got the message.
Or is this an appetiser for a lucrative contract for a “safe city principle using smart tech”? Isn’t that the reason for the trip to China? As for the queues outside offices, maybe they just want to use the toilet!
CHEEKY CHIRPER I thought PE was the safest city in SA. Mongameli Bobani, your office must be based in la la land. RESIDENT
ZOMBIES DO EXIST
The video of the resurrection performed by Pastor Alph Lukau proves beyond any doubt that resurrection is possible. And, judging by the expression on the excorpse’s face, zombies do exist. J J OSSHER
KINGS CONTROVERSY
“Kings’ performance” (February 27): Basie L, you have it so wrong! It takes someone who knows rugby to see how useless the Kings are. As Fed Up said, Monday is always the day for excuses.
If you are such a rugby fundi, please give us reasons why the team is so pathetic. No, I wouldn’t want to watch one of their games live. Certainly wouldn’t be money well spent.
SHERWIN SCHREIBER, BLUEWATER BAY, PORT ELIZABETH
Now that the consortium deal has been concluded, those who criticised the Isuzu Southern Kings and EP rugby as a whole must stay where they are. We don’t need negative supporters. Now we can just grow from strength to strength. Still a proud supporter of the Isuzu Southern Kings.
BASIE L, ALGOA PARK, PORT ELIZABETH
Nobody gives a $#@!% about Kings, sorry queens rugby team. Forgot the four supporters at the stadium. OBSERVER
REPLIES TO READERS’ COMMENTS
Dear Pensioner (“Small increase disgraceful”, February 27). What did you do to improve your pension during your days of employment? I had to pay towards my pension during my days and years of employment. On Wednesday I received a pension and still pay tax on my pension to provide for people dependent on state pensions. So don’t complain. Be grateful that you at least receive something.
L MCLEOD “Complaint no surprise” (February 27): Mbulelo Nqontsha, Sandy’s comment about the government’s alleged payment of R25m for Caster Semenya’s IAAF funding was that money could be spent on services. Nqontsha, you turned the comment into a racist tirade.
GORDON UPTON R Calmeyer Leach in response to your question as to who runs Makhanda (“City now a big rubbish dump”, February 27), they have money to change the name of a town but no money to keep it clean.
REALIST
BLAME QUOTA SYSTEM
I think you can blame the quota system for the loss of another cricketer, Duanne Olivier. Good luck to him. There is no guarantee in SA that contracts will be wholly honoured. FRANK