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/ 25 November 2005
Enough of the crocodile tears I read with dismay Nomboniso Gasa’s open letter to Jacob Zuma (March 17), and cringed at her crocodile tears. I am not politically correct and shall nail my colours to the mast: I align myself with Zuma’s fight to be accorded respect and dignity, not least by the partisan character […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Do as He would do After listening to the radio interview with Mail & Guardian editor Ferial Haffajee, I understand completely where she is coming from. However, to avert the kind of outrage that the printing of the cartoon has sparked, it would have been better to omit it. To do so would not have […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Too red to see green Thank you for a sober reaction to political statements by South Africa’s rulers undermining the use of environmental impact assessments (”Mbeki joins assault on green laws”, August 4). They should be reminded that the Constitution provides for ”an environment that is not harmful to … health and wellbeing”. To enforce […]
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/ 25 November 2005
PLAN bodies dishonoured The discovery of the bodies of PLAN fighters buried in a mass grave near the former South African Defence Force (SADF) base at Eenhana in Namibia gives me the opportunity to write about my own experience while serving on the Namibian/Angolan border. I was unwillingly conscripted into the SADF for two years […]
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/ 25 November 2005
A corrupting silence In drawing attention to the current anti-intellectual populism in South Africa, Graeme Bloch (”Where did the left go wrong?”, September 15) emphasises the need for humanist values and asks ”how we fell so quickly from political and moral leadership, integrity and worldwide respect”. In the same edition Ivor Chipkin questions the state […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Desai is our Sartre I read with horror the bile spewed by Malegapuru Makgoba against Ashwin Desai in your last edition (”Truth is often less sexy than sensation”). Makgoba uses innuendo to name the alleged unaccountable ”mafia” that abused public resources and kept no records. He names Saths Cooper, under whose management records weren’t kept. […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Lidice: A repulsive parallel Your comparison of the Nazis’ Lidice massacre with the Israeli Defence Force’s defensive actions in Lebanon is repulsive and naive about the grim situation facing Israel in the Middle East (”Orgy of destruction”, July 21). The latest Israeli Defence Force actions are in response to Hizbullah’s unprovoked act of war: the […]
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/ 25 November 2005
SA betrays Palestinians I want to remind President Thabo Mbeki of the blatant betrayal committed by the silence of our government in the face of the daily humiliation, torture and bombing of the oppressed people of Palestine by the racist, bloodthirsty Israeli regime. The Palestine Liberation Organisation adopted and acted on the principle that Palestine […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Take crime seriously! Sadly, Justine White’s experience of ill-treatment by the police is not isolated and Booysens is not the only police station where people who report crimes are treated shabbily (”The police must also respect the Constitution”, November 10). As a relative newcomer to South Africa, it saddens me and makes me angry. On […]
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/ 25 November 2005
It’s the economy, stupid Editor Ferial Haffajee makes some bold statements and assertions in her article ”Meaning of the Selebi saga” (December 21). She should have been more cautious and thoughtful; I found her arguments loosely constructed. High-personality crimes usually give rise to such outcries. While the government believes one murder is a murder too […]