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Horse Memorial Defacing – ‘What a bunch of 1/6th’s!’

6 April 2015 By Alan Straton

Horse Memorial

At the risk of being labelled arrogant or pasted with any of the many 'ist labels allow me to express my knee jerk reaction to reports that 8 one sixths have gone and defaced Port Elizabeth's Horse Memorial: WTF? Why didn't the purported EFF vandals rather go and vandalise the statue of Queen Victoria? Is it because then Afrikaners would have sympathised! BUT, I do have a suggestion for the next random act of vandalism for the EFF's 1/6th's - pop down to Mendi Road and vandalise the … [Read more...] about Horse Memorial Defacing – ‘What a bunch of 1/6th’s!’

Mendi Bottle Store Still a Hazard

11 January 2011 By Alan Straton

I visited the site of the Mendi Bottle Store in New Brighton on 26 November 2010 with three members of the Save Our City Committee, all involved in tourism. The reason for my visit was purely to see the site having discussed it on numerous occasions at various portfolio committee meetings. To my horror I was confronted by this square brick building with no windows surrounded by rotting waste as you can see in the photographs. The sad side to this story is the presence of the Emlotheni … [Read more...] about Mendi Bottle Store Still a Hazard

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