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John Steenhuisen, an anti-poor and pro-dodging elitist?

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Democratic Alliance Leader John Steenhuisen has unintentionally (but honestly) helped brand his party as anti-poor. And he’s unapologetic about it. Undoubtedly and rightfully, he’ll come under fire from a Public that’s sick of politicians who don’t care. Steenhuisen grew his reputation with witty comments in Parliament. His target was the low-hanging fruit that the corrupt ANC is. The biased Media that supports the DA made him a household name. However, in this interview outside of his comfort zone, his inadequacy has been revealed. He was questioned regards the DA-led City … Read the full article…

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A Kid’s Street Diary

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Every raindrop hits me In Winter night, my skin reads the newspaper and I awake educated to the street The cold colds The robot beckons me to beg a coin Dressing in my unhappy face (they don’t know that the unhappiest shows nothing), I jostle with the Coca-Cola Man to get my tax relief Later, I’ve got my bread and single cigarette and I’m playing hide-and-hide with the older boys Thank God, they don’t see the angel in my pocket so soon I’m sniffing her all the way to Heaven … Read the full article…

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Homeless After Knysna Fire, No Government Help

Homeless after fire - no government help

This family is camping in Salt River after Deputy Mayor Peter Myers said at the meeting on July 3 that it isn’t the responsibility to provide shelter to the victims of the Knysna Fire. They’re a family who knows how to live rough, having been without electricity and water for one and a half years. But having no roof and the security of walls, just a small broken tent, is severely challenging. They’ve now had to let their children live with a lady they know from a church. The mom and her boyfriend are camping. But so there’s some positive in this story, a member of the public at that meeting dropped off a good tent for them the following day. Community spirit, again, rules.

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Heartless, Candace Myers, Just Heartless!

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This is the most cruel, heartless, bitchy statement I’ve read in Knysna. It’s horrendous that after victims of the Knysna fire were refused help by Deputy Mayor Peter Myers, his wife, Candace Myers, made a post on social media as if the victims were being unreasonable and that he and she were the victims of the meeting. That meeting was their disaster unless you measure success in cruelty. They are out of touch with us common folk, riding a horse way too high for them to call us neighbour, let … Read the full article…

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DA Labels Homeless Whites Asking for Help as ‘Lynch Mob’

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The response to the survivors of the Knysna Fire is to not help him. The Disaster Feedback Meeting was a disaster for Deputy Mayor Peter Myers and the Democratic Alliance. There was immense dissatisfaction, assuring several hundred people will never vote for him again. However, he’s chosen to lie about what happened, pretending that that majority supported him and that our justified objections came from an unreasonable minority. He conveniently forgets he and I previously had a polite meeting in which we discussed victim necessities and other things off the … Read the full article…

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The DA Ensures the Knysna Fire Disaster Continues for the Homeless

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The Knysna Fire disaster continues, now with the Democratic Alliance versus the victims. Tonight, the meeting at the Angling Club was definitive proof that the DA doesn’t care about Knysna. I’m not making political statement, as i don’t support any of our politicians, but here the DA rules. It was made perfectly clear that Peter Myers, Ward 10 Councillor and Deputy Mayor, was the ‘Them’ in the ‘Us versus Them’, instead of being our elected representative. It was disgraceful that Mayor Eleonore Spies wasn’t there, maybe because there were no … Read the full article…

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The Nasty, Nasty People of the Knysna Fire

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Our politicians don’t care about Knysna’s fire victims. Proof of that arrived strongly last night! Yesterday, I posted a blog requesting that fire victims, especially the homeless, to please contact me. I want us to meet, discuss our challenges and decide if we need our own committee to deal with the Knysna Municipality which hasn’t meaningfully dealt with us in 21 days – yes, it’s exactly 3 weeks since the fire of June 7. The correct response from our politicians or municipal officials should’ve been to catch a wake-up call … Read the full article…

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