Editorial

EDITORIAL OPINION Poker with robots
AT A GUESS, motor industry employees should take the best offer they can get by about Wednesday. After that the odds are likely to start stacking up against them. The atmosphere of labour negotiations often resembles a game of poker, with two gri...

The Chiel
Taste sensation THERE is a surfeit of Chinese eating establishments in East London. You can get any number of Italian dishes. We have American, Mozambican, Swiss, Indian, English and South African too. But why no Thai? Thai food is a delight. Th...

Treasury denies Bleat claim on pay-out delays
ERIC Naki's Bisho Bleat, (Saturday Dispatch, Aug 4) refers. We have noted with great concern the pension and benefits pay-out problems that are continuing to frustrate the Ngxam and Mbekwa families since their loved ones passed away. It is not t...

Youth, listen to your parents
I AM a 20-year-old student at Border Technikon and I want to give the South African youth -- especially male -- a word about looking after themselves An article I read in the Daily Dispatch about four youths who were sent to spend their lives in ...

True value of culture recognised
THIS is to express appreciation for the earnest endeavours made by the Department of Sport, Recreation, Art and Culture, jointly with the Eastern Cape Provincial Arts Council, in their commitment to the development, promotion and conservation of a...

Clarendon High guild wants new members
CLARENDON High School will be celebrating its centenary in 2003 and it is the aim of the Old Girls' Guild to have 2003 members by then. The Guild's committee is therefore appealing to all past pupils of the school to join and reap the benefits of...

Reunion
THE Commercial-Stirling High School class of 1976 is holding a reunion on August 10 and has been unable to contact certain ex-pupils. Should you be one of those ex-pupils or know of anyone who matriculated in that year, please contact Karien de ...

Afraid mothers would do circumcision
I WOULD like to thank the House of Traditional Leaders for finally intervening in the circumcision problem. I was so scared that these "inquisitive mothers" would go to Beijing once again -- this time to make a vow that next season they will be t...

Dispatch ANC mouthpiece
WHY has the Daily Dispatch turned into a mouthpiece for the administration, instead of playing its proper role as watchdog? The party of the day is lauded at every step, while crises are going on all the time. Have you decided to stick your hea...

Please give Mdantsane pools
THE only swimming pool in Mdantsane was vandalised in 1987 because of the negligence of the past government. We made some efforts as the Mdantsane Swimming Association (which is now defunct) to have a functional pool. But our plea was neglected by...

PO 'deaf'
RE. "The Post Office can't be trusted", (DD, Aug 2). Just to add my two cents' worth: I sent two packages (birthday/Christmas gifts) to Cape Town -- neither of which arrived. I guess the more letters like this you receive, the more could be pres...

Dark threat of zero growth of population
By Michael Hartnack in Harare IT is a pity Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa, who says the Durban racism summit will give a perfect opportunity to put Zimbabwe's case for reparations for colonialism, never got to know the late Bill Margolis, a d...