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Workers face bleak future

Mxolisi Myaka: The days of unionism are all over. Uber, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Google, Automation, etc. have turned a new chapter in the new techno-industrial revolution. The worker is no longer at the centre of digital industrialisation, the office is in cyberspace and robots are doing the job.

City helps homeless in winter

Theo Holmes: Promoting reasons to be homeless – why not – if you are, then free handouts are to your benefit. Cape Town has far too many hangers-on from other provinces. More who were born here in Cape Town are helped less than the countless expats from the Eastern Cape and East Coast.

Bianca Lyness: Okay, first of all, we have an average of 3 000 empty shelter beds a night in the city. They have curfews, people can’t share with their life partners and they have to be in bed at a particular time. For many people on the street they prefer the street to that situation. Secondly, we get an influx of more than 2 000 people every weekend whose weekend “job” is being homeless. Thirdly, the City of Cape Town has the city police regularly remove all the items in the possession of homeless people in Cape Town CBD. This includes donated blankets etc. This is not a problem you can throw money at. It’s like throwing money away.

Moegamat Yaaseen Isaacs: “Street people”? Half people, half streets? Homeless people makes more sense.

‘DA made mess of #WaterCrisis’

Bernice Laas-Bezuidenhout: If the government does not want to give money to Cape Town to sort out the water crisis after the DA made a request, then the ANC is to blame. But I also think that if Capetonians had been informed earlier of the crisis brewing, we, the people, would have put in the necessary effort earlier and ensured that there was no water crisis ourselves. This is not about pointing fingers as much as why the water crisis was kept quiet for so long in the media. The DA had to pay a lot of money on awareness campaigns as our national government does not want to lift a finger to assist. Do not think Cape Town will fall apart because of this little problem. The recent rain has already given us loads of reserves. Fazlin Jacobs: Useless. Fatima Rinquest: Don’t vote DA.