Letters to the Editor
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Letters: Four months without streetlights, why must we fight with the City?
We’ve reported not having streetlights for four months in Chilwan Crescent, Helderberg Industrial Park, multiple times. How much longer must one keep fighting with the City of Cape Town?
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Why is my skin colour rejected?
Somerset West resident Emmy Holliday criticises how social media constantly reinforces racial discrimination and argues that government attempts to categorise people by skin color through constitutional manipulation cannot change the…
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Red tape halts storm repairs
A single mother with chronic bronchitis at Voortrekkerpark Holiday Resort in Strand was prevented from installing glass doors to replace damaged porch shade sails after the City of Cape Town…
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Are we living in ‘bubble’ of fake safety?
While doing my weekly shopping on a warm tranquil Monday morning recently my day was turned upside down by a force of emotional freight pulsing through my mind and body,…
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Safe taxi rank doubt
Resident Emmy Holliday criticizes the Western Cape government’s decision to place the Somerset West taxi rank in the CBD, arguing it has turned the area into a dangerous hotspot that…
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Church, Lourens Street area a dump
A frustrated Somerset West homeowner condemns the DA-run City of Cape Town for erecting a R64 million taxi rank in a residential area with five old-age homes, three churches, a…
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Learning to co-exist amicably, with tolerance
How do we as human beings perceive one another while living in the same space on a daily basis?
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Skouspelagtige sonsondergang
“[Die] eerste dag van herfs groet indrukwekkend mooi oor Kogelbaai,” skryf Cobus Germishuys, wat weer eens lesers met sy fotografievaardighede beïndruk.
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Kongres van konyne
Die welbekende hase in die Brandstraat-omgewing lyk heeltemal of hulle toegespreek word.
