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RECLAIM BONUSES?

So the Buffalo City metro is [going] broke. Does that mean they will be asking for the R10,000 “strike bonus” back from the employees? OBSERVER

PASS COURSE FIRST

To the young wise man who wrote an article in The Herald dated March 12, I would rather, if I was you, complete your PhD in sociology and then make comments as your article on “Decolonisation not a commodity” is filled with so many fancy words that you simply do not make sense. Rather you and your fellow students should look at passing, and getting out into the industry and making a contribution to the economy.

Enjoy the professionalism of your academic lecturers who you are constantly trying to hound out of the university all the time. Just now you guys get Pol Pot arriving and sending all of you off to re-education camps!

READER Pedro Mzileni, the next leader of the BFLF? How in the world can The Herald publish articles that are so blatantly racist and that are calling for students to rebel or protest? Shocking, am seriously considering cancelling subscriptions.

ED

WHAT ABOUT RUBBER?

Recycled plastic in roads: what happened to the fine rubber from used tyres theory? Surely this is just as good or better. CHEETAH

SECURITY PROBLEM

Although Traveller is right about the bomb and the butt (“Transnet, catch a wake-up call”, March 12), in this particular case the problem does not lie with Transnet. Passengers are an immigration and security problem, and PE does not have the required systems in place to vet or process anyone. One does not just step on board a ship anymore. It has become a major security issue.

IVAN SKOVAR, BRYMORE, PORT ELIZABETH

NO TOUR REPORT

I may have missed some sport report, but why has there been no report on the SA U19 cricket tour to India? Further EP was represented by Luke Beaufort from Grey and nothing reported in The Herald. Please make sure your reporters look into this. SPORTS FAN

REPLIES TO COMMENTS

The bottle in the picture (“What’s this object?”, March 12) looks like a mini hooka pipe. Just a suggestion.

EX-SMOKIN’ GRAN, HUMEWOOD EXT, PORT ELIZABETH J S (“Don’t dump rubbish in valley”, March 12), can’t you from a map establish the road [from which the rubbish is being thrown], count the properties and give the info to the environmental custodians? They can then get these slum dwellers convicted, even set them to work doing a few Saturdays’ cleanup? EVE

PAY OFF DEBTS

Light bulb idea: why doesn’t Treasury refund Eskom the recovered Trillion money and other corrupt funds by paying the municipal debt of all struggling municipalities? Eskom will be helped and the municipalities too. Otherwise the funds would be used for other nefarious purposes. EDWARD

HARBOUR LIGHT

Further to my chirp regarding the sunset over the harbour (“Not a sunset”, March 8), one thing that has confused everybody, including myself and the photographer, is the “light”. That light is a harbour lamp pole light, and neither sun nor moon.

H J FRAHM, MASTER MARINER, PORT ELIZABETH

BELIEVERS EXPLOITED

Sometimes truth should be told. Our neighbours have exploited our church belief. We find ourselves becoming gullible when it comes to pastors who claim to have been given powers to heal. It was unfathomable to claim to resurrect a dead person.

However, that doesn’t vitiate the fact that even our municipal pastors are doing the same but on a smaller scale. We are not xenophobic but we narrate the facts as they are.

CHURCH GOER