Stops on Settlers
What is happening at the stops of the newly upgraded Settlers way road?
Most vehicle drivers are treating the stop signs as yield signs, and in some cases some don't even stop or reduce speed at all!
I have not seen any traffic officers patrolling or inspecting since the final opening of the new road.
It is just a question of time before someone's vehicle is rammed from the rear when he/she legally stops at a stop sign or is caught and cut square-on at one of these stops. — JMJ Felizardo, East London
Post-Post Office era
What is the point of doing anything with the Post Office? It had a wonderful opportunity under a recent excellent CEO, Mark Barnes, but that came to nothing because the ANC government did not like his expansionist plans and feared the loss of central control — the mantra of an outdated and failed socialist ideology.
Now government has full control of another devastated SOE to add to its already lengthy list. It is the master of chaos.
Sandra Goldberg, via email
Many a slip, Mkhwebane
The news that former and disgraced public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has decided to throw in her lot with the EFF raises interesting issues.
The DA was prescient to distrust her when she put her hat in the ring against two sitting judges for arguably the most important of our chapter nine institutions.
Now she has doubled down on her impeachment by joining team Malema, thereby rejecting constitutional values in favour of his revolutionary agenda.
Her desire to radically “transform” the mandate of the Reserve Bank remains undiminished, adverse personal costs awards notwithstanding.
Her new career path in politics rather than public service is surely the death knell for any chance of persuading the authorities to pay her the gratuity she so richly does not deserve.
But Mkhwebane has a few mountains to climb to get into representative politics.
She is still facing perjury charges which may, if she is convicted, carry a prison term without the option of a fine. That would disqualify her as an MP.
In addition, there are swarms of creditors, including the state, which irregularly paid for her stay in Bryntirion, some of whom may be sufficiently impatient to sequestrate her estate in pursuit of their claims. That, too, would end her eligibility as an MP.
Paul Hoffman, SCAccountability Now
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