SOCIAL MEDIA

Soentendal farm evictions

Sharon Moore: Absolute disgrace! Sven Heeren: Lived there for 20 and now the farmer is the wrong?

Ashraf Ismail: n Boer maak n plan #Not Davine Kyria Sansom: This is unacceptable! As a farmer you disgust me. Abu Sakeenah Farzaanah Slamang: The farmer should have his say, there are two sides to a coin. If you feel so distraught by this, then why not get your own farm and invite all these people there… Davine Kyria Sansom: They have worked their fingers to the bone. Eileen Bownes: Put yourself in the farmer’s shoes. In the end he will have no farm, just houses for farmworkers, and no land to farm so you can have food? Cynthia Bredenkamp: The farm was sold, this is the new farmer who evicted them. They did go to court , workers lost… not nice mister! Cheryl Bruyns: Changes happened, see how our minister of finance was fired. Victoria Butler: Farmer covers water and electricity on their farms, and the staff don’t contribute at all, I know from experience. They have all their family living with them as well as kids, etc, so a house that has two rooms will house 13 people, and only one works for the farmer. Tat is unacceptable! Why is the farmer always the one at fault! Maybe he can’t afford it anymore? We couldn’t! Andie Dlokolo: Sorry to you all, but God will answer your prayers, I blame the bank, I’m blaming the person who was helping you at the bank, but for those tsotsi's they will die one by one, fighting over that money. Nomth Duma: Sad but people don’t want to learn carrying such an amount is not safe. Sandiswa Saida Jobo: Sorry guys, now you’ll have a black December and January shame. Brenda Jackson: the bank.

Inside job or someone at

Lydit Ditlopo: Someone knew! Klaar.

Pelican Park hit by drugs and gangs

Alain Craig Allen:

I knew it! Zubair Moola: This is the new Pelican Park. The old Pelican Park residents now live in

I’ve lived in Pelican Park for many years and have younger siblings growing up there now. What a pleasure it was staying in a gang free place. This new housing development will go to ruins if the gangs are not stopped. My 17-year-old brother has already been a victim as they robbed him of his skateboard coming from school. Igshaan Lewis: Kill the bad elements, the merchants, get them out. Rafieka Temoore: This is scaring me. As a resident in the old section I simply loved the safety for my kids’ purpose. But now I feel like moving too. Faadia Isaacs Majiet: I live there and already experienced a break-in. I’m afraid to let my kids play outside. Now I’m even more paranoid. How can we fix this? Soraya Sanders Abrahams: My mom has a house in Pelican Park… sadly, she passed on. Her mail was intercepted and the occupant fraudulently took occupation without informing her kids. Two years later and she’s still there, but yes, this too shall pass. Just goes to show what people do to obtain free accommodation, when you and I have to work to pay our bonds. Sheron Pretorius: So sad when the opportunities afforded to people are ruined by a selfish and callous few. Kim Louw: Been here a year-and-a-half, only downside was the break-ins which happens all over. I have never felt unsafe in my house. Charlene Schuller: We should certainly stand together. I will be a home owner soon in New Horizons and I think it’s pretty bad that people walk in the streets with beers and swearing and shouting… we should all stand together and do something about this. Craig Grever: So why won’t the city sort this crap out and make it safer before it is unmanageable? Do they want a druginfested area or more shebeens? Why not go ahead and shut down and evict anyone with illegal structures and ensure that they have regular patrols so people feel safe before it becomes another Masiphumelele where the people take the drug dealers to task. Act now before the community is lost.

Gavin Rich, blinded by his pettiness, is looking for new ways to embarrass himself. This small-brained hack insults rugby people with impunity. Yet he is still to produce evidence for his spurious allegations. Is it a too large a dose of reality for Rich that credible writers point to former Lion players as the culprits for John Mitchell’s non-appointment? Is it because he desperately wants to serve the public cheap, titillating nonsense that he continues his tirade against the WP officials, the bulk of them non-white. – Anthony Meyer, Retreat

The question is, “who is going to replace Zuma NOW?” and not whether he must fall or not. – RJ Mullins, Strand

In Summer Greens we have a pub and offsales next to a creche and church. I have seen clientele from these establishments urinate against walls of the church and creche. Late at night customers from the pub throw bottles outside our properties and urinate wherever suits them. Houses are overcrowded with foreigners renting from known slumlords. We report to council but things stay the same. I have e-mailed the City of Cape Town to enquire who gave the alcohol outlets operating licences and requested them to close them down – with no answer. Our once beautiful suburb has turned out to becomplete slum. I’m ashamed to tell people where I stay. Voting time is around the corner and this time the DA will not get my vote. – M Carstens, Summer Greens.