IT’s sad that Trevor Manuel, a man who has done so much for us as finance minister, misses the point when he feels that more financial intervention by the developed countries will reverse the ratio of more professional South Africans outside South Africa than all professionals in the whole of Africa....more

Keep up pressure on metro to clean up Central

COLIN Fidelis’s attempts to put the blame for the problems in the Central area on councillor Terry Herbst is a smokescreen for the inability of the authorities to take firm action to deal with the problems in the area (“Crime prevention in Central – who really has not delivered?”, March 21)....more

People who wait in vain for grants have human rights too

MAYOR Faku said a mouthful at the Human Rights Day celebrations on Monday (“Faku lashes out at unrepentant apartheid human rights violators”, The Herald, March 22)....more

Inadequate notice of road closure

I AM a resident on a farm on the Mount Pleasant-Seaview road. A morning drive from my home to the beach on Sunday turned into a nightmare as I found myself facing a number of cyclists speeding towards me in the middle of the road....more

Shortened names

CAN anybody tell me why our municipality is changing most of our street name boards? They have left off all words like street, avenue, circle and road....more