Harriet Mazansky of Boston is shaken by South Africans’ America bashing (December 7). She needs to know the real bad news: the attack on our currency has made us feel that elements within the globe-gobbling superpower have made themselves our enemies. If someone tries to mug us on the street, we shoot to kill lest we be killed. Should it be different if the mugger is halfway round the world in a tower robbing me blind with a keyboard? Harriet and those who “liberated us from apartheid” should realise that US expansionism means wholesale plunder of the global second tier is on, fast making the more connected among us grovellingly grateful southerners into part of the problem for your (not so invulnerable) towers. Andile Adam, Durban