Readers’Views

Wake up, Andile, and come up with some practical suggestions

Andile Khumalo writes good columns, but sometimes he forgets who his audience is when he pens them.

In his latest contribution, “Give our children equal chances” (January 20), he laments the damage being done to schools through theft and vandalism of property.

Surely he realises that the people who read Business Times are not the ones who trash education facilities?

He suggests we all take responsibility for our communities’ social assets.

Sorry, Andile, you need to return from dreamland.

Curbing this horrible waste of state assets will require effective policing and severe punishment for the perpetrators, and a call to the community by the leaders in the area where the damage is being done.

A little more practicality with suggestions would indicate that Andile is close to the ground instead of dealing with a mythical world.

Tony Ball, Gillitts

Blow to Wiese’s ego

Christo Wiese’s urgency to get a lot of his money out of SA resulted in him making serious mistakes — costly mistakes, “New Look not a good look for Brait” (January 20).

But the good news is the Wiese family still have more than enough to survive.

Whether his ego will make it is not known yet.

Philip Jansen, on businesslive

Time to act on state capture

It’s nice to have all this detail [from former Bosasa COO Angelo Agrizzi, testifying at the commission of inquiry into state capture], but who is going to follow it up?

It seems that so much is being revealed but so little action is emanating from it!

Why bother to bring it out in the open if it is just going to be swept under the carpet?

Willem la Grange, on businesslive

It is another arms-deal-style whitewash. A matter of “look at us — we opened it all up, now let’s just get on with life again.

The Skunk 1, on businesslive

And yet again, no one will be charged, no one will go to jail. The leadership of the NPA and the SAPS/Hawks are a disgrace to SA.

Les Thorpe, on businesslive

Pay back the money, Woolies

It’s all very well to remove remaining stock and commit to working more closely with local entrepreneurs, “Woolies’ response to baby carrier scandal leaves much to be desired” (Readers’ Views, January 13).

But how about reimbursing the company with royalties from every baby carrier that was sold so [the entrepreneur] is at least able to recoup part of her intellectual property?

Woolies is skirting the issue. Why should it not also be out of pocket for acknowledging its “striking similarities”?

Pay back the money, and show some clear admission of guilt and responsibility to the smaller entrepreneur.

Miri, by e-mail