Editorial

EDITORIAL OPINION Judge on welfare
OUR COURTS have said that government is a potent and omni-present teacher. For good or ill, it teaches people by its example. "If the state, as role model par excellence, treats the weakest and the most vulnerable among us in a manner which dimin...

The Chiel
Compulsive TV I CAN see that Tuesday evenings will be spent at home between 7 and 8pm over the next few months -- well that is if the video cassette recorder isn't set for that time. It looks as if Survivor, on SABC 3, is going to be compulsive v...

Open campuses to all politicians
TERTIARY institutions must not forbid certain political leaders to enter their premises to canvass for the local elections, whereas they allow other political leaders of their choice to do so. They must stop that unacceptable behaviour because we...

If you must kill each other, do it away from innocent people
I THINK it's enough now watching South Africans who die in the taxi drivers' fights in Transkei. Most victims are innocent taxi passengers. If taxi drivers fight because it's hard to make it in the business, they must do so in a clean way and let...

The site's the thing
RE. your online Dispatch Poll: should the question not be about the siting of the casino, as this is so important in attracting tourists and holiday makers? Surely any tourist given the option of the PE casino on the beachfront or our EL casino ...

Casinos - show some wisdom
THE fanfare which greeted Mr Boltina's speech at the opening of the casino complex in Port Elizabeth must be carefully weighed against Merrill Lynch's latest macro-momentum index, where South Africa has slipped seven positions to number nine. Eff...