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Editor's note

In the last few weeks I have received some really disturbing e-mails, which I am sure a lot of you have too:

* Steven Bacher's Radio tribute to Sheldon Cohen

There are days when I feel like getting on a plane and flying out of this country and never coming back to this murderous land. Last night a close friend of mine and great South African, Sheldon Cohen, was shot dead for no reason by scum of the earth robbers while waiting for his son to finish soccer training at Balfour Park. The bastards tried to rob a woman of her cellphone and for no reason ran past Sheldon and shot him in the neck.

Sheldon was a great South African. He was head of Wits student magazine and an active member of nusas in the eighties. He then went to study at Harvard University in the US and he obtained the best marks in the history of the illustrious university by a non-American for the coveted Harvard MBA. With job offers from any corporation in the world, he chose to come back to this country to make it better. He started the monitor group and then became a director of Amap formerly known as Tedelex. He was compassionate, brilliant, generous, kindest and hysterical at times, he was so talented in all he did. He is no longer with us. His two young boys Zack and Noah do not have a father and his wife is a widow. And Jack and Betty have lost a beautiful son. He is just another of the 55 South Africans murdered every day of the year of every colour, the second highest murder rate in the world. We have become a sick nation whose leaders have no answer to the collapse of the moral fibre of filth that wait for us in every road and driveway. They kill us. They kill our sons and daughters, they kill our mothers, they kill our fathers. They kill our spirit. And in the end they will kill us all. This is not socio economic. This is evil personified.

Lucky Dube, Sheldon Cohen, it does not matter. I am becoming less and less proud to call myself a South African. In fact I am becoming embarrassed to call myself one. Just as much as I used to under apartheid.

* Petition to President Thabo Mbeki

21 000 people murdered in South Africa during 2005.

More people are murdered daily in the 'Post Freedom Struggle', 'Peaceful', 'Democratic', South Africa, than any period during the so-called 'Freedom Struggle' and/or the 17 years of international boycotts and sanctions against South Africa.

3800 people were killed on 11 Sept, 2001 in America and the world 'is at war'!

21 000 people were murdered in South Africa and rest of the world turns a blind eye!

* A message from John Baisley, chairman of Honeydew Community Police Forum

Trinity House School will be staging a silent march on Thursday 21 February 2008, in honour of the late Emily Williams, a pupil of the school who was killed last week during cross-fire in an armed robbery in Fairlands.

This march is aimed at taking a stand against the ongoing crime and violence that is sweeping our beloved country.

A sad, sad sign of the times...

Lynne Larsen

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