Editorial

The Chiel
What, no permit? THE NEW marine fishing regulations are ruffling more than a few feathers in angling circles -- not least among those who enjoy casually dropping a line in the water a few times a year and who feel the cost of all the required per...

EDITORIAL OPINION Stals plays Scrooge
RESERVE Bank governor Chris Stals seems determined, where interest rates are concerned, to give South Africans the smallest Christmas present he can get away with. Since commercial banks dropped their prime lending rate from 24,5 percent to 23,5 p...

Ladies day great
HAVING been fortunate enough to be invited to the Absa Ladies Day, I was surprised and saddened to read your reporters "critique" of the outstanding and memorable function -- outstanding because of the organisation, careful thought and generosi...

Disabled children neglected
IN June, hostels of two schools for disabled children in Transkei had to close early because the Department of Education in Bisho didn't pay their financial claims. Subsequently assistance was given and they opened again. However their budgets we...

Stealing from Vukuhambe immoral
CRIME Reporter Matt Ramsden reported on the theft of wheels, tools and computers from the Vukuhambe School for the physically disabled. How can people take other people's belongings? Even worse, how can people steal from the disabled? How low can...

Gqozo-era education system
THE five year sentence slammed on Lumka Jwambi for fraud has left me cold. This is the lady who took up a teaching post of Matric Maths in the School I headed in 1992. If she ever spent more than 15 days in the classroom during her six-month emp...

Blacks not indigenous
MAFUYA Siyapi Radebe's submission (DD Oct 13) cannot pass unchallenged. The black people of Southern Africa love the erroneous notion that they are indigenous originally to Southern Africa. That magnificent Southern African historian the Rev Mr...

TRC's report on freedom fighters disturbing
THE report by the TRC in which it implicates the liberation fighters as perpetrators of violence is disturbing. To suggest that our liberators should be held responsible for defending us from elimination by apartheid murderers is not reconciliat...