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LETTER: Past pupils key to quality schools

In SA, we have a number of excellent schools, many of which operate along the same lines as Eton

LETTER: Bill to weigh on the fit

Picture: ZUKISWA ZIMELA

Yet another group of ANC insiders will be employed by the Fitness Industry Regulatory Authority

LETTER: Fifa graft has become a way of life

Fifa president Sepp Blatter speaks during a press conference at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland,on Tuesday. Picture: EPA/ENNIO LEANZA

Brazil’s own 1994 World Cup star, Romario, called last year’s tournament ‘the biggest heist in the history of Brazil’

LETTER: School of true thought

Picture: THINKSTOCK

Quality education is key, but not which is rooted in apartheid and colonialism

LETTER: Against Barnes

Deutsche Bank. Picture: BLOOMBERG/KRISZTIAN BOCSI

It could be very profitable for banks to maintain in-house technological expertise and innovative capacity

LETTER: Respect is earned

President Jacob Zuma addresses ANC supporters at the Cape Town Stadium for the ruling party’s 103rd anniversary celebrations in this file image. Picture: TREVOR SAMSON

A title does not command respect

LETTER: Openness will heal us

The Alabdullahs — Sara, Hanan, Mohammad and Suzan — are still haunted by memories of life in a refugee camp after being forced to flee Gaza. Mohammad says Suzan cries at night in fear of bombs hitting the restaurant. Picture: KIM HARRISBERG

We all need to be open to different people and ideas if we are to find peace in our own country

LETTER: Not state property

President Jacob Zuma's residence in Nkandla. Picture: SOWETAN/SUNDAY WORLD

The whole fuss about Nkandla (as I understand it) is exactly because we are talking about a private residence

LETTER: ANC’s trash of denials

Former president Thabo Mbeki testifies at the Seriti Commission on Thursday.  Picture: PUXLEY MAKGATHO

Ruling party couldn’t give a damn about the country’s image or the damage done to the confidence of taxpaying citizens

LETTER: Far-flung ‘donation’ is far-fetched

South Africa's Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula looks on during a media briefing in Johannesburg. All 2010 Soccer World Cup funds were accounted for and audited, South Africa's sports minister said on Thursday, and the government was yet to receive an indictment from U.S. prosecutors involving South Africans. Picture:  REUTERS/SIPHIWE SIBEKO

Did any concerned member of the Safa executive ask why this money should not be given to our local community?

LETTER: Don’t ignore Visa crisis

Picture: THINKSTOCK

I’m not saying Nkandla is right or wrong, but the visa crisis is much more serious

LETTER: End ‘balloon payments’ by the state

Ismail Momoniat. Picture: ROBERT TSHABALALA

Compared with the organs of state at all levels, SA’s financial services industry is a shining light and a beacon of hope

LETTER: Ignore ANC nonsense

Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula. Picture: GALLO IMAGES, ZIYAAD DOUGLAS

Save time by skipping any comment, intention, promise, announcement, reasoning or proposal by anyone connected to the ANC

PROBING: Pregnant women’s data are valuable to advertisers as they make big purchases.   Picture: THINKSTOCK

LETTER: Violence of the helpless

Young mothers do not need a breadwinner who brings home such poor bread if they are getting money from the state

LETTER: Let my Darling be

Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema, centre, address people in Alexandra township on xenophobia on Monday. Picture: PUXLEY MAKGATHO

I see the EFF have enough spare time on their hands to consider changing the name of the town of Darling

LETTER: Hatred for Africans

Sport Minister Fikile Mbalula has a democratic right to express himself in the recent Fifa fiasco

LETTER: SA sanctuary for Sepp

Sepp Blatter.  Picture: AFP PHOTO/FABRICE COFFRINI

With all the safety and security features at Nkandla, President Jacob Zuma should offer asylum Sepp Blatter

LETTER: Biometrics on arrival

Picture: THINKSTOCK

If the Department of Home Affairs wants to do biometric testing on tourists, it could be on arrival at immigration


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The Third Umpire

President Jacob Zuma. There’s no doubt the power shortage is a major cause of the steady deterioration in business confidence in SA. But politics, corruption and policy matter, too, and the buck for that stops with him.

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Deputy director-general for trade and industry Zodwa Ntuli, who took the brunt of MPs’ ire at proposals to raise the drinking age and make liquor distributors responsible for harm caused by their products.

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Medicines Control Council registrar Joey Gouws, for relaxing the approval process for imported active ingredients to help free up the medicine-supply bottleneck. Just what SA needs: less red tape, more pragmatic solutions.

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