IT does not take a rocket scientist to work out that if ministers and powers-that-be take a 10 per cent cut on their increases government can afford what the workers demand. Start with Parliament, go to the provinces (nine of them) and local government structures, and you will have more than enough to compensate the workers....more

WHILE it may not be top of the pops in some people's books (if recent media reports are anything to go by), when it comes to classical music Port Elizabeth plays second fiddle to no other centre in South Africa. This was amply and very audibly demonstrated by Sunday's (and I am sure also Saturday's) Last Night of the Proms concert in our superb Feather Market Centre....more

DECISIONS made by rugby referees, especially at school level, have and will always evoke comment, both favourable and otherwise, by parents and supporters (“Good refereeing essential to sort out dirty play”, The Herald, June 8)....more

ABOUT two months ago, there was a letter printed in the Letters to the Editor from a woman complimenting the service of an official at the home affairs department in Pretoria. She had to urgently obtain an unabridged birth certificate for her daughter....more

HERE is a thought for our strikers....more

I AM sure there are valid reasons why the national department of transport has put up the no hiking signs all along the highways. However, I do not think it is right for any member of the public, including the taxi operators, to enforce these bylaws themselves....more

ESKOM has announced its intention of building not just one more large nuclear power station, but many and one of the most likely sites in which the first is to be build is Thyspunt between Cape St Francis and Oyster Bay....more

IT seems that the whole of Walmer is not safe from the creeping tide of blocks of flats and commerce....more