Letters

Panyaza Lesufi, your disingenuous move to blame parents for their children not being placed in a school by the start of the academic year has deservedly earned you the title “Mampara of the Week”, writes Solly Msimanga.

While I agree with the measures that are advocated to curb the abuse of alcohol, especially amongst young people, I would go further to suggest, first, that the legal age limit for the purchase and consumption of alcohol be raised to 21.

Lawyers clash over whether pseudonymised data protects children or weakens privacy law

In the early stages of democracy, the ANC government initiated a moral regeneration programme, which was led by Father Smangaliso Mkhatshwa. The programme does not seem to be having any impact, if it’s still there, writes Thabile Mange.

The National Housing Finance Corporation board rejects the mischaracterisations published in the Sunday Times and wishes to set the record straight, writes board member Satish Roopa.

The committee is not dealing with an innocent man persecuted by childhood trauma. It is dealing with a man who acknowledges many arrests, yet most of the time never faced the consequences of those cases.

Experts such as Mary de Haas already know the result, then find the research to fit it, writes Chris Kanyane in Pretoria.

Empowerment means capacitation. If the new government in 1994 had sourced its banking needs from the African-initiated bank, placed its employees on the African-created medical aid, etc, then that would be BEE, writes Dr Kenosi Mosalakae in Houghton.

South Africa’s economic policy debate is not merely technical, it is a moral reckoning.

Most telling of all is that it is not Hamas that has isolated Israel. It is the actions of Netanyahu and his warmongering coalition that have created the environment that has turned Israel into pariahs in the eyes of most of the world, says the writer.

It says something about just how alien the radical Islamist mindset is to those not directly affected by it that even after two years of war between Israel and Hamas.

Only one MP, Dereleen James, had the courage to confront the brutal asymmetry in South Africa’s murder statistics at the ad hoc commission hearings in parliament, writes Grant Son in Cape Town.

Occasionally, some changes could at a stretch be considered reconciliatory, such as when places and rivers where ancestors lived keep their indigenous names.

Your article “Discovery CEO Adrian Gore pushes back on crime pessimism” (September 28) refers. “CEO Gore has lamented an overly dark and ‘corrosive’ narrative that makes South Africa’s crime problem appear worse than it really is.”

Stripped of pretence, Gen Masemola declined to bend the narrative in his favour, writes Chris Kanyane in Pretoria.