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Of course at situation, quoted in your editorial The disastrous rainfall pattern this stage, this is all speculation but (nose218) may not go without a over the past few years changed a it is not nonsensical. comment. In the mid-80s we were serious situation into a disastrous In your Editorial you express informed that the Western Cape one, without any initiative from the the hope that learning comes from was going to become a water scarce authorities. The De Lille prayer could mistakes. This raises the question: area as a result of climate change/ be heard in the city hall: “Please Can people who seem to have no clue global warming. Global warming did Father take this cup away from us”. what they are doing make mistakes? not decrease, neither did it remain Unfortunately the Father did not Pieter Wesselman constant: it increased. listen and we have to contend with a Waterfront, Cape Town Fast forward to 1990 when the flood situation resulting from a total lack of action by the authorities. Even of people from the then Transkei and n THE CITY OF CAPE TOWN, ESPECIALLY Ciskei began, resulting in a sharp during the summer of 2016/17 they Dear Leader Mayor De Lille, has increase of the population of this were counting and praying for a good been useless, useless, useless. And city, putting severe pressure on its rainy season in our 2017 winter. Only could someone please explain how an water resources. This development when this appeared to be a real pipe 80-year-old widow living on her own compelled the administration to start dream did they start to impose ever- on the sixth floor of a block of flats in using water from Theewaterskloof stricter water restrictions. A real case Sea Point will flush her toilet? Dam – which farmers say was origi- of “after the horse has bolted”. Robert de Vos nally built for agriculture only – for What we have seen developing is a Cape Town domestic purposes. destruction of the water security of the Western Cape, an endangering of To compensate, the dam in the n MAYOR DE LILLE HAS BEEN APPROVING Berg River at Franschhoek was built. the food security of the area, a threat upmarket developments all over the However, it was already stated at to job security in the area and an City for years, in the face of strong that time that this development was undermining of the financial position civic resistance and professional going to be insufficient to satisfy of the metro. With the imposition of advice. All these new projects have the water needs of the area. Add the an illegal DA-incompetency-tax/water large water footprints in construc- decrease in rainfall, then one can levy, they have placed the metro in a tion, diminish groundwater recharge, only start counting down. kind of Sanral situation, with a tax/ increase consumer water demand, Always keeping an eye on the levy that is not going to be paid. pollute more watercourses and satellite photographs of the southern It is infuriating that a party which require provisioning with water- Atlantic, I got a big shock in the hopes to form a government after the dependent industries. She does not winter of 2008. The fronts over South 2019 elections can willingly allow talk about this we note. America, which take about seven this situation to come about. Patrick Dowling days to reach South Africa, had Teddy Roosevelt said that “in poli- Kommetjie disappeared half-way across. What tics nothing happens, everything is was left were some cloudy areas from very carefully planned”. This state- ment will make sense when we look Knysna: ineptitude or worse? which we received some rain when SO, MORE INACTION AND INCOMPETENCE into who may possibly gain from this they reached the Cape. from the Knysna municipal authori- disaster. What immediately comes to This development most certainly ties, then a farce of an expensive mind is “property development”. should have set some alarm bells investigation and report that Since last winter we have ringing. It did, with Agri-SA, and the blatantly lies, and then, when the been bombarded by development company in Strand that is building lies are exposed in Noseweek, some announcements: Maiden’s Cove; desalination plants in the Far and other fantastical story is concocted as a R1.8-billion project somewhere Middle East. The latter went public, an alternative but also factual expla- in the Eastern part of the CBD; stating that, due to new technology, nation of the “facts”. If you’re going to The Culemborg area; the develop- desalination and purification of the lie, at least, make the lie plausible. ment around the freeways and their groundwater reserve under the Cape David Arundel Flats had become an attractive possi- completion (being the mayor’s legacy); Cape Town bility. Reaction from the authorities an unwanted development near or at the border of the Bo Kaap; and more was that they were talking about it. n THE “SECRET” INVESTIGATION IS ENOUGH A few years ago they both promised to come. to let us know something official went approached the province and the I have no doubt that many devel- very wrong. Was it gross carelessness city with their worries about the opers will be salivating when they in the end? water security in the Western Cape look at or think about Franschhoek, Arlette Franks but were cold-shouldered by them. Paarl, Stellenbosch and the Somerset West 4 Douw’s raiding of Sassa grants by the very liquidators named in harassment, I do believe 100% that THE GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO LOOK INTO nose219. They are lucky to still be my parents would have enjoyed all these so-called billionaires to see operating. Their day is coming. a much longer and happier life where their wealth is coming from. Mortis together. How can anyone with a heart take Hilton I was robbed of my only family and from the poor? Douw Steyn is not the my children, of their grandparents only one; there are sadly many others Iqbal’s unicorn and any legacy or memory. like him. THE PROMOTION OF IQBAL SURVÉ’S In cruel irony, on the same Edith Steyn personal interests in Business Report morning, not long after receiving the Zurich, Switzerland (nose219) is shameful, but to be phone call about my dad’s passing, Not quite like him! – Ed. expected. The last straw was when I walked passed Rob Lowe and his Auntie Adri [Adri Senekal de Wet, partner enjoying R1,000 crayfish n THIS IS AS CRIMINAL AND IMMORAL Business Report’s Executive Editor] on the Camps Bay strip. It took all as Zupta’s criminal actions; sheer lectured her readers on how to be my restraint not to help that mid- callousness towards others in the proper patriotic South Africans. morning brunch in, down, and out name of insatiable greed. ‘Ex-subscriber’ the other side in one filthy swoop. Lee Ward Able Umdloti However, from what I read about Port Elizabeth his sick pornographic past, a crispy Agony of elusive redemption crustacean violation might have n LIKE WITH ANY OTHER POLICY/ IT’S BEEN OVER A DECADE SINCE I LET YOU gone down nicely with a glass of insurance company, it is not the know about the passing of Dr Frank Chardonnay and a sea view.