Editorial

EDITORIAL OPINION How to welcome Ramatex
THE R800 million Ramatex investment makes a marvellous birthday gift for Buffalo City -- the new municipality of East London-King William's Town which is due to be proclaimed this week. As Finance MEC Enoch Godongwana put it: "We will look back a...

The Chiel
Damn English ENGLISH pronunciation is a minefield even among English speakers. My e-mail pal Jackie has sent me a poem apparently written to help multi-national Nato personnel at their Paris headquarters discard accents. It's intriguing and as sh...

M'sane HIV-Aids trust to expand
IT WAS very nice to read that there is more support for the orthodox view of HIV/Aids (DD, Oct 7). It seems possible that our top political decision-makers will also embrace the fact that HIV is the sole cause of Aids. Those of us who fought for ...

Mob justice wrong
LAST week, residents took the law into their own hands and grievously beat up three theft suspects. This happened after a minibus had been stripped of its tyres in Zone 10. The suspects were punished by residents armed with pangas, knives, bottl...

Poll for puppets
JUST what is "local" about the local government elections, and what is independent about the Independent Electoral Commission? The initial demarcation of the "wall-to-wall" municipalities was carried out, with only derisory local consultation, by...

Shameful turnout for Mango Groove
WHY were there only 2000 people max (according to the newspaper) at the recent Mango Groove concert? From all accounts and varied comments, there were many reasons for the shamefully small crowd: inadequate advertising by the promoters and no tr...

Schooling for Mother Africa
THE Pan-Africanist Youth Congress in the Border South East region wishes all African students good luck in the coming final examinations. They have the capacity and strength to improve the chronically bad results in the African community. All we n...

The colour of money
I HAVE gathered from the media, both TV and press, that the majority of hopeful South Africans are spending large or small amounts of money each week in the hopes of winning a million. I'm not envious of those who have won, but try again the fol...

Awol pupils not missed
MY daughter Sigcobile who went missing on May 5 was a final-year pupil of Hector Peterson High School in Zwelitsha township. When I called at the principal's office about three weeks after her disappearance, it was with shock that I learnt that ...