Mthombothi is right yet again, the ANC has to go

One of my main reasons for buying the Sunday Times is to read the weekly column by Barney Mthombothi. Congratulations for his brilliant summary this week of our national state of affairs (“Things to do this year: get rid of the cause of our suffering”). What an excellent commentary on the current pathetic state of South African politics and the reasons for this.

Surely any reasonable voter in South Africa will have to agree with his solution to this problem: to get rid of the ANC completely.

I cannot believe that a nation can keep voting to return an incompetent government time after time while battling to survive the damage that is being done to us, the ordinary, innocent citizens of South Africa.

Thank goodness I am partially insulated from this fourth-division state of affairs by experiencing good government in the Western Cape. However, the abject failures of the ANC still creep through to us in the Cape, where we have to endure the dysfunction of Eskom, the SAPS, the South African Post Office, home affairs, Transnet, and so on.

South Africans, please can we try an alternative national government in 2024 to help make us “healthy” once again? H Hopkins, Onrus

Motala misses the stumps

Ziyad Motala has no place to criticise Cricket South Africa (CSA) head Lawson

Naidoo. David Teeger, captain of the national U-19 team, did nothing wrong by dedicating his private Jewish achiever award to the Israeli Defence Forces. He can do with his award as he wishes.

The race or religion of the legal commissioner who investigated the incident should not be of any concern to Motala.

Zionism is legal and refers to the normal aspirations of Jews around the world to protect the only Jewish state in the world and the only democracy in the Middle East.

The writer lacks the acumen to successfully attack an 18-year-old schoolkid.

JS Trakman, Sea Point