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E Cape’s spekboom leading charge in fight against climate change
APORT Elizabeth company and a conservation NGO have got together to help the EP Child and Youth Care Centre – and at the same time to do battle against climate change.

Politicians continue to flee from criticism of own shortcomings
POLITICS was once very interesting. That was when we thought we might use it as a vehicle to transform human relations to reflect the values we espoused during the liberation struggle.

Metro leaders aren’t doing enough to stimulate development
ON allegations of political bias in The Herald, let me wade into the matter of suspended municipal manager Graham Richards from a layman’s point of view.

Environmental concerns throw up new vocabulary to learn
THERE is no doubt the world is becoming more environmentally aware. We are entering a period of environmental consciousness and awareness which is unequalled since at least the start of the industrial revolution.

Metro must increase its rates base, and bring in more funds
THE current parlous financial position of the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality should not be considered an occasion for hand-wringing or condemnation, but as the opportunity to consider how best to address the situation and lay a firmer foundation for the future than currently exists.

Is all the chaos just about a 1.1% increase? Think again
THE savagery of the public servants’ strike is deeply troubling.

Save sympathy for true servants

LIKE the majority of fed-up South Africans – those of us not employed as civil servants, that is – I have little to no sympathy for the strike, nor for the strikers. Before you reach for the tar and feathers, hear me out: I am not unsympathetic to the plight of individual teachers or nurses who, for the most part, have a fairly thankless task.

Source without name media sore point
PHIL Corbet, standards editor of The New York Times, sent a memorandum to the newsroom this week on the use of anonymous sources.

What has happened to BRT buses after the World Cup?
JUST the other day I received an impassioned e-mail from Linda, a good friend of mine. She was lamenting the negative impact the changes made on the roads, to accommodate the invisible BRT buses, have on drivers on the Nelson Mandela Bay metro roads.

‘Impasse’ between state, labour a study in Marxist theory
WE enjoy taking a dig at Karl Marx and trying to show how faulty his understanding of society was.

Likely alliance truce ahead of 2011 poll, but eventual split inevitable
ASKED at a meeting in Port Alfred during the 1994 election campaign about industrial action in a democratic South Africa, ANC president Nelson Mandela responded: “Why would workers want to strike against their own government?’”

Press sit-in puts focus on freedom
IN the 1980s, during the various states of emergency, journalists used Parliament as a way of getting the story out.

Tribunal Grinch ready to steal tabloid party

THERE’S a magnificent mountain in Limpopo, just after the Kranskop Toll Plaza on the way to Polokwane. The Modimolle Mountain has a story to tell.

Is hoarding best soccer players fair?
COMING hard on the heels of a well-deserved 3-0 thrashing by Manchester City it may sound like sour grapes to question the calibre of the players on the pitch – and, more especially, those off it.

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