EN PASSANT
TYRON Khoza is so blinded with patriotism he can’t face reality (“Actually the ANC is the big winner”, The Star Letters, August 25). This is the beginning of the end for the ANC in our beloved country Ronnie Melton Glenanda, Joburg I AM tired of seeing Joburg metro police department officers sitting in their cars waiting to catch cars that speed. They are never in Louis Botha Avenue, where it is a nightmare with the taxis going through red robots, overtaking on pavements and so on. Also it is the deparment’s job to remove illegal posters. But nothing is done. They also do nothing about the hawkers, window washers, beggars at robots, garden refuse being burnt. This is part of their job. Suggestion: get unemployed people to remove the illegal posters and fine the advertisers. This will cover the cost of the workers. G Bergman De Wetshof, Joburg INSTEAD of a tax, we could reduce sugar gradually. In a drink with 9 heaped teaspoons of sugar, we could reduce a teaspoon every six months until there was just one flat teaspoon left. People would get used to it and the soft drink dealers would stay in business. Ann Cluver Weinberg Raedene, Joburg A COUPLE of things I saw prompted me to write to you.
1. President Zuma is to take a personal interest in the management of state-owned companies, including SAA.
2. Qantas posted an A$1.42 billion profit. That’s about R14bn. How? Through painful restructuring. President Zuma has a couple of options.
Close SAA and stop throwing good money after bad. It has already had billions pumped into it and it is surviving only because of government-backed loans. Or he could call in the A-Team to fix it. I McKeag Hermanus, Western Cape GAUTENG Premier David Makhura and Barbara Creecy are bragging about getting a clean audit for the first time in 13 years. It has taken them 13 years to achieve what the DA has done the whole time. I hope the DA audits all your contracts and cancels the illegal ones. Leo Tuttelberg Berario, Joburg I AM petrified by the fact that young girls miss at least one day of school every month because they lack sanitary towels. I know we may divert this issue for political gain or just narrow selfish agendas, but the fact is girls need pads and if we continue to be spectators, we will lose our girls to blessers and drug lords because they act as if they “care” for them. Ayanda Njodo Cape Peninsula University of Technology student Cape Town RECENT scientific studies have connected excessive consumption of sugary drinks to an increased risk of type 2 diabetes. The resulting health burden is tragic – heart attack, stroke, dialysis, blindness, amputation. There is evidence that a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages decreases consumption – shown in Finland, Hungary, France and Mexico. Anne Chachlin Morningside THE LETTERS regarding our rugby refer. I agree that some of our players have a habit of kicking the ball straight into the arms of the opposition, thereby giving them the advantage. Our coaches seem to lack the common sense to see this kind of play is only helping the opposition. T Andrews Joburg