EFF hearing can only be unfair

I concur with Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema about the unfairness of the composition of the committee hearing the case against EFF MPs.

It is clear that politicians can be unfair and biased towards their parties. Any disciplinary hearing with politicians in charge is likely to be unfair.

Rules of parliament that are not consistent with the constitution should be amended.

As Malema said, in this instance the ANC is the complainant, the one hearing evidence, the prosecutor and the judge.

Where do you find justice in this arrangement?

Joshua, Uitenhage

Why does the ANC chase lizards when there are crocodiles in its midst?

The unacceptable conduct of EFF MPs is the conduct of members of the ANC, as exemplified by Nkandla.

In politics and governance records, the name Jacob Zuma will be at the top of the list of bad presidents in the world.

Zuma was once protected by Julius Malema.

He created Malema and dealing with him in this way, when public trust of Zuma is at a low, is not good.

Malema and the EFF are lizards.

It is the many crocodiles within the ANC that we should be chasing.

Nozipho Makhoba, by e-mail

Scrap paying cash for scrap

Regarding the report about marking cable, the exercise will be futile if no authority checks this system.

Metal theft has become a major problem worldwide. Some countries are dealing with it effectively by preventing dealers paying cash for scrap.

Payment is made after inspectors have viewed and approved the delivered goods. At some dealers in South Africa, customers arrive with bags of scrap that are weighed and paid for without inspection.

Metal scrap, however obtained, becomes instant money.

There can be no better incentive for theft than that, and the cars and trolleys queueing at depots across the country are testimony to that. - Jack, Plettenberg Bay

The drips of decay are now a flood

According to Water and Sanitation Minister Nomvula Mokonyane, "a glitch" was the reason thousands of Gauteng residents were without water, some for weeks.

Actually, it is a crisis when you consider the reason given was cable theft. Apparently, no inquiry is necessary as "this was the first technical problem post-1994".

The ANC took over a world-class water supply company and, in 20 years, has let it go to ruin without maintenance and upgrades. The same is true of Eskom and other parastatals.

The lack of technical skills is because of cadre deployment and incompetent leadership.

Tina Joemat-Pettersson destroyed the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and had two public protector findings of maladministration against her, yet she is now minister of energy and involved in the signing of a nuclear deal with Russia. - Leo Tuttelberg, Berario

Consumers must protest against high prices

It was interesting to read S Varkana's recent letter about the high price of groceries in South Africa.

Every time I shop the prices go up, and for no reason whatsoever.

There is little competition and a lot of collusion, and the average consumer is so bombarded with high prices they have become numbed, or are too lazy to object. Prices are not rising by a few cents, but by R5 or R10 overnight.

It is time consumers gathered outside supermarkets to protest. We must express our frustration to the people taking us for a ride. - Laurence, Johannesburg