Don’t judge others
THEletter from D Scarborough had me chuckling somewhat, despite the serious nature of the subject. This correspondent is quick to claim biblical authority for homosexuality being a sin while ignoring the many more common sins which are all around us.
I’d take D Scarborough’s words more seriously if I knew for sure that this person doesn’t eat shellfish, doesn’t wear clothes of mixed fibres, never mixed meat and dairy products, sold his or her oldest daughter into slavery and married a virgin. The last one, by the way, carries the death sentence (for a woman) if flouted.
The Bible does not condemn same sex marriage. The references to homosexuality are spurious at best, and in any case are over translated. Jesus preached love and social justice. I’d suggest D Scarborough read the bit where he tells us not to judge others… Jaye Richards-Hill the demolition given by Council.
As the Hout Bay Civic Association and Sanco Hout Bay Branch we will be attending the Full Council Meeting to ensure the motion is tabled and supported by all. We are, however, of the belief that once the “White House” is demolished, the City of Cape Town must act on the pleas of the community of Hout Bay by taking full responsibility for the property, as well as those which it owns adjacent to it.
As the Hout Bay Civic Association and Sanco Hout Bay, we are aware that the demolition of the “White House” might not put an immediate end to the crime crisis, but we believe it will send a clear message to criminals that lawlessness will not be tolerated in our community.
It is our hope, as Sanco and the Hout Bay Civic Association, that the pleas of the community must be heard. We acknowledge the need for all community members of Hout Bay to play a more active role and unite against crime.
Our two respective organisations would therefore like to appeal to the community of Hout Bay to join our planned march against crime and to raise the level of activeness and unity in combating crime.
The March will take place on Sunday August 2, 2015 under the theme Sakwanele! Genoeg is Genoeg! Enough is Enough! It will commence at 2pm at the Salamander Park in Hangberg, Hout Bay.
Our organisations make this appeal to concerned residents of Hout Bay; to support our call and unite against crime by joining the Sakwanele March. Roscoe Jacobs
Gary Kwreqe hospitals and education are raised. The latest casualty of the monopolies is the Passenger Rail Association of South Africa (Prasa), which paid R600 million in Spanish locomotives that are too high for our overhead railway power lines.
Surely Cosatu should realise that whites in South Africa are also South Africans, work smartly and pay their taxes to keep these inept but essential parastatals going. If the private sector, excluding parastatals, were run by the same people who run Eskom; the Post Office, SAA, Prasa and others, they too would have been ransacked and fewer taxes would be available to fund the serial-loss-incurring state-owned enterprises.
While Cosatu Western Cape invokes the old racial saw that “the DA is creating a protective enclave for whites in the Western Cape”, it studiously avoids mentioning that the Western Cape is the best managed province in South Africa (albeit with much room for improvement). Instead of a thinly veiled jab at whites, Cosatu should be thankful. South Africans; brown, pink, blue and yellow all need each other. Michael Green by TNS Research Surveys, that where the DA governs, they “create jobs”.
The DA appears to be confused about its role and what it needs to do with the millions of rand it receives from the fiscus. The national government dispenses taxpayers’ money to the provincial legislatures, who in turn dispense taxpayers’ money to the municipalities under their control.
Smith is palpably wrong to blame the national government for not “creating jobs” when his own DA administration wasted more than R400 million of taxpayers’ money on Filcon Projects, a company facing eight different liquidation applications in the high court. The wanton abuse of the public purse by the City was further exposed by the Cape Times recently when payments to gang members at City projects abandoned by Filcon made the front page. The City also has a nagging habit of rolling over unspent millions to the next financial year.
With the pre-election silly season in full swing, voters will no doubt be looking forward to our liberated press presenting them with more similar facts and less fiction. Colin Arendse young people with the educational tools to perform in a university environment.
Vice-chancellor Habib, resuscitating South Africa’s educational system will require a Herculean effort. This will not occur unless people in your position are in the forefront to effect change. Errol Horwitz