Editorial

SATURDAY VIEW Halo fades
IF we believe somebody is expert on one subject, we tend to believe they know a lot about other unrelated topics. Their expertise has what is called a halo effect. But this effect can work in reverse. When somebody keeps repeating something which...

The Chiel
MPs on a roll NO doubt the cartoonists and satirists are going to have a field day with the story from Parliament that they've run out of toilet paper. Imagine what fun Zapiro and Pieter-Dirk Uys will have with that juicy bit of news. I can't wai...

GROGAN'S WORLD
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Cyclists request courtesy
I WRITE as a concerned cyclist who has often been the victim of intolerant and careless East London motorists; those of whom derive great pleasure from the following irresponsible acts: 1) Seeing how close they can get to the cyclist by virtually...

People in glass houses
I FOUND Donald Card's statement about traditions and ways of life puzzling ("Racism conference waste of time", DD Sept 14). He says these place barriers on unification of the races. He goes on to list some of them as ignoring traffic lights, litt...

Dispatch Online
I WOULD just like to thank you guys for the Dispatch Online. I moved up to Johannesburg two years ago and at least you have made leaving East London easy with Dispatch Online. Thank you very much. Keep up the great work . Morne Booysen Riverl...

You light up my life
VIVA, Dispatch! I am a regular reader and do not get bored reading the newspaper. I have tried other papers, but so far none has compared with my much-loved Dispatch. It has given me a lot to think about and my perception of the outside world has...

NU12 police always in shebeens
WE residents of Mdantsane are sick and tired of policemen of Zone 12 who always spend their working hours in shebeens instead of helping the community. If you go to them reporting an urgent matter, they just laugh at you as if you are insane, and...

History of racism
RE. Donald Card's letter: ancient Romans and Greeks had no concept of white identity. Capitalist-colonialism created whiteness in settler-colonial South Africa. Race became a modal struggle between Europeans and non-Europeans from the days of the...

BUFFALOBLEAT
Eric Naki Lessons from history EAST LONDON councillors will go down in history as good examples of elected representatives who failed their own people. The councillors, particularly those from Mdantsane, have done a very bad job in the five ye...

Toy telephone
Dispatch from PARLIAMENT with Anthony Johnson "WHAT the hell am I doing here?" a senior -- as well as very bored and frustrated -- ANC politician recently muttered about his ongoing membership of the impressively titled National Council of Prov...