Varsity students need some serious career guidance

POLITICS

Ngcobo cannot replace stolen lights in sunken garden but can squander ratepayers money on Jacob Zuma. This sends a message. | Mc

Please tell us how our rates money can be used to sponsor the ANC pre-election advertising by sponsoring Zuma’s record?

I do not like the DA but I will vote for it in the next elections.

I am fed up with the ANC. I am a professional working for the municipality but I am no longer doing my professional duties because our work now is to organise events. Huge money is spent on these events and no money is left for core functions. Even our performance agreements are based in these events and as a result core functions are neglected and citizens suffer at the end of the day.

ANC officials to spend R100 million in Durban. Whose money is that? Our taxpayers’ money.

Ever since Malema’s party members have been implicated in the VBS bank debacle he’s been laying low. Sometimes silence speaks the loudest especially when one has a guilty conscience. What do you think?

President Cyril Ramaphosa has repeatedly said that the ANC is serious about eradicating corruption and those who are complicit must pay the price. The ANC’s leading campaigner in KZN is none other than the former president Jacob Zuma... The ANC must really think that we are all really gullible fools. | CN

“Activist traffic row with cop”. What’s surprising about that? ANC can do what they want. At least that’s what most of them think! On the same page at the bottom “Prasa called to act after three die”. I go home on the R102 south through Umgababa daily and you want to see how Prasa vehicles are driven with passengers being dropped off along the way! They drive flat out and disobey every rule of the road. But, will anyone do anything to punish them? No, not a thing. | John P

ANC activist on bail after abusing cop. My guess is if the perpetrator was white we would have every black organisation baying for blood after a “racist incident”. Double standards. | Ian

ODDS AND ENDS

According to this newspaper, DUT received 83 331 applications for 8 314 places. What was very surprising is the large number of students applying for social science, nursing, hospital management, drama and production, etc. Is there anybody within the education department with some intelligence and courage who can guide these students that after completing these diplomas, they will sit at home for years because the open labour market has absolutely no need for them and the state can only employ a handful if there are posts available?

Great achievement for prisoners at Westville Correctional Services School regarding their matric exams. Without taking away the glory of dedicated teachers and the ambitions of the inmates, we must understand that these prisoners are fed three meals a day, have an exercise programme, free medical care, bed and bedding, electricity, bathrooms and toilets and a host of other luxuries. Compare this to the students who are not in prison and who most often walk tens of kilometres on an empty stomach to attend school and then write these exams, which then results in a completely different picture altogether. To those students who are subjected to the hardships of daily life outside prisons, I salute you. | UNKAL

Teddy Mafia has conceded that he gives the community loans to pay off their expenses. Is he a registered credit provider, a loan shark or a micro lender? What is his formal employment to grant such loans? This is money laundering, which is a serious offence in South Africa. The Hawks have a case to pursue this matter if they are serious to get positive outcomes. | Mike