TO THE POINT

Listen to Napier

I REFER to your report on June 12 about the Pope thanking Archbishop Wilfrid Napier for staying on.

I congratulate the archbishop on his courage and honesty in admitting the ANC started a dividing process when it introduced BEE and affirmative action, and brought back another form of apartheid.

I trust the ANC will take the archbishop’s opinions seriously. I suggest it behoves Archbishop Desmond Tutu to support Napier publicly, and that these two leaders exert the same zeal as Christians used to bring down the apartheid government.

This country is in dire straits, disadvantaging all. ROGER LAYZELL

Rosehill

Public Enemy No 1

PUBLIC Enemy Number One was a term first widely used in the US in the 1930s to describe individuals whose activities were seen as criminal and extremely damaging to society. Al Capone and John Dillinger earned the title, as did the disarmingly named “Pretty Boy” Floyd and “Baby Face” Nelson.

South Africa already has its own Number One and I suspect that many would consider it appropriate to add the words Public Enemy. JOHN GARDENER

Howick

Shame on Transnet

TODAY as I was glancing through the Tribune dated June 12, the letter from Carl Hammersen regarding the Transnet pension fund caught my eye.

He mentioned that more than 10 of the pensioners die every day. My husband Roy was one of the 10 who passed away – on June 9.

Yes Carl, shame on you Transnet, he could no longer wait to be given what was rightfully his. I hope that this issue will be resolved before no more pensioners are left. ONAH PENNEL

Pinetown

Perfect for Mars

MARS ONE (Sunday Tribune, June 12): Now guess which single person the majority of the minority in the country would like to send on this single-ticket-never-to-returntrip? EBRAHIM ESSA Dormerton