Editorial

SATURDAY VIEW Yesterday's heroes
THE gesture by the South African Rugby Football Union (Sarfu) to award Springbok blazers to black rugby players who formerly represented their country is a giant step forward. It deserves loud applause. With hindsight, it is ludicrous that black...

BUFFALO BLEAT
Eric Naki Bisho to cut stress by playing sport BISHO legislature staff have come up with a great idea and to cut the stress of thinking about the pending rationalisation courtesy of a Bearing-21 consultant -- they have decided to play sport. S...

The Chiel
Good Wife Guide WOULD you believe that anyone could write this sort of drivel? Certainly not the 21st Century man or woman, but it is said to come from a Home Economics textbook. If so it could only have been written in the 1950s or '60s by some ...

Pity for criminals misplaced
SIVIWE Mfeketo's letter, "Mob justice wrong", (DD, Oct 11), reflects the experience of a man unaccustomed to violence, impressed by a single incident. Forgotten is the fact that these petty criminals he pitied are overcrowding our jails. Overse...

Tech campus getting safer
RE the letters "Soldiers on tech campus", (DD, Sept 22) and "Safety at EC tech campus", (Oct 7): Safety at Eastern Cape Technikon's main campus on the N2 outside Butterworth is an ongoing top priority of the institution. Continual interaction on ...

Undeserved gratitude
I COULD not agree more with Ndenzelinceba Bojanyana and Simon Meyer, re "Thank you to whites", (DD, Oct 16). What a ridiculous statement to make. Maybe David Cooper (not the one of Castrol SA) should thank the blacks whose blood and sweat it too...

Not a lotta Lotto money left
WE have seen various assessments of the drop in consumer spending. Retail sales of beer, soft drinks, chocolates and other discretionary and impulse products are notably down on previous years. The consensus seems to show consumers are spending m...

Zim's OK
SOUTH AFRICA continues to blacklist Zimbabwe. What's wrong with Zimbabwe? South Africa and its media are publishing something imaginary and propagandist -- like Mugabe suffering epileptics fits, retirement, economic suffering -- instead of suppor...

Congrats to bishop of Umtata
MY congratulations to Bishop Dr Mzamane on his appointment as Anglican bishop of St John's (Umtata), a man of God for whom I have the greatest respect. As an African I hope to see in my lifetime all churches which are still headed by people from ...

Wobbly wheels
Dispatch from PARLIAMENT with Anthony Johnson THE main engine room of South Africa's brave new democracy --Parliament -- seems to be in imminent danger of seizing. What is supposed to be the nation's premier institution showcasing what a long-d...