EN PASSANT
THERE appears to be no end to the money the government and the ministers in particular are willing to spend on legal matters.
Surely a little honesty from the ministers and the departmental staff could hugely reduce the taxpayers’ money that is being thrown around defending the indefensible? A few resignations would reduce taxpayers’ legal bills by millions and thereby the enormous stress on the South African Revenue Service. Oakdene THE ONLY thing standing between us and a disaster is faith. Faith that our leaders will be wise enough to combat overpopulation and global warming without resorting to genocide and extreme measures. Faith that our leaders will be wise enough to deal with those who threaten to reveal that capitalism might have reached the point of no return. Faith that our leaders will be wise enough to understand that one should never put all one’s eggs in one basket.
The worst thing we could do would be to fall for the argument that we need to have one government, one currency and one privately owned central bank.
What if someday all this power fell into the hands of someone like Hitler who was prepared to kill millions in order to create more lebensraum or living space for German people?
Fortunately, we have more than one media outlet and it might be possible to persuade bankers that it is time for them to bail out the system. Money is, after all, only paper. Woodstock, Cape Town weekend Higher Education National Convention was cancelled after chaos erupted and chairs and water bottles were flying through the air. A distraught former deputy chief justice Dikgang Moseneke cancelled the proceedings due to safety considerations.
The major problem in society is that we listen to only those with whom we agree and shut out all other opinions we are opposed to.
Uncomfortable situations and people are to be kept out of our dialogue. We don’t really speak to one another, only to those who are like-minded. There is no dialogue and so comprising is impossible. Consequently, we no longer learn how others feel or why they feel the way they do. We live in ignorance of the other side and see the world as opposing camps, when in reality we have more in common than we think or want to know.
That is why extremism has taken hold of much of our society. Without dialogue there is no hope for unity or finding solutions.
WRITE TO US
Bryanston I WISH to comment on an article that appeared in The Star (March 15) titled “Headache drug offers some hope”. The article, from the Daily Mail, claims that there is hope for sufferers of trigeminal neuralgia, with a new drug that gives a 30% pain reduction. The article also states that there is no cure.
This is not true and sends the wrong message to people suffering from this awful problem. I have been successfully treating patients with trigeminal neuralgia for years with a relatively minor surgical procedure; the pain can be eliminated. There are numerous ex-sufferers who can confirm this. The Headache Clinic, Parktown