Skills levy not for #FeesMustFall

The reason for this is quite simple. Most white parents limit their offspring to two people, knowing how expensive it is to raise, clothe, educate and feed youngsters in this day and age.

They rarely expect their sons or daughters to be the breadwinners, which according to Nomzamo happens to black students. This means they can devote time to their kids in terms of teaching them the ways of the world. I wonder if Jacob Zuma’s offspring ever get to see their father on any regular basis?

But incredibly she feels that the skills development levies should be redirected to the #FeesMustFall campaign.

As a businessman who has been obliged to pay skills levies for years and been unable to utilise the grants because of the reams of paperwork required to qualify, I object to her suggestion which is akin to putting the hands in the cookie jar.

As a group executive of a major empowerment organisation I would have expected her to have a better understanding of how business works and that business is not this bottomless pit of money to put into education for people that in many cases are frankly not university material.

Of course, that is understandable, given the fact that many students would rather concentrate on protests and marches instead of their studies. TONY BALL, DURBAN some of the limits had been changed to R999 999 999 (unlimited).

Upon engaging with FNB Business, I learned that FNB had a catastrophic failure in August, which changed cards limits back to its default.

This was never communicated to me as a customer and it poses a major financial risk to customers. COUNCILLOR BRUCE LEE, CITY OF TSHWANE the market, but will simply give them more business at the expense of their competitors, who must then downsize accordingly.

So Pick n Pay will be hiring and the other food retailers, particularly the smaller independents, will be firing. There is no job creation at all. STEPHEN PAIN, FRIENDS OF THE EARTH CC, RIVERSDALE