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					Thursday 19 February 2004


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	Letters - Briewe


	Car guards put nails in my car tyres Hoekom so suur oor jeug se musiek Bad service from cellphone shop Dankie aan Buurtwag Nagklub nie "Drug Free" Dit raak warmer in Drakenstein (Editorial)

Car guards put nails in my
car tyres


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I appeal to all residents of Paarl to protest the situation with socalled "car guards" and vagrants which has become totally unbearable and unacceptable.

I reside in Klapmuts and have the need to visit Paarl almost on a daily basis where I am accosted by vagrants who pretend to be "finders" of open parking spaces and who pretend to be guardians of one's vehicle - for a fee.

These people frequent property belonging to the city council - the parking area adjacent to Pick 'n Pay, all of Lady Grey Street as well as the parking area Patriot Square.

They act as if they are the owners of these parking areas and when I refused to pay them, I was told that my vehicle's tyres would be damaged. I felt really threatened by this aggressive attitude.

The last five occasions I have gone to Paarl, I have been able to find open parking spaces without having to rely upon the assistance of any outsider. I then stay in the car whilst my wife does her shopping.

On every occasion I refused to pay a "parking fee" and on every occasion I found my rear right hand tyre deflated with a nail penetrating the wheel in the middle of the tread.

We now avoid coming to Paarl and we shop elsewhere, where we are not threatened or bothered in any way.

I would like to call upon the Town Council to mount video surveilance cameras at strategic places. This could lead to the perpetrators being brought to book.

WH Hamann

Hoekom so suur oor jeug
se musiek


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EEN van die mees algemene klagtes van kerke is dat hulle leegloop (daarom die dominee van Welling-ton se onlangse skokterapie).

So word gesê dat sodra die jongmense voorgestel en aangeneem word, hulle nie weer die binnekant van die kerk sien nie, maar by 'n gemeente hier in die Paarl word die jongmense deur Mev Dominee by die kerkraad verkla.

Al wat hulle gedoen het, was om nie die gebruiklike orrel in die jeugdiens te gebruik nie, maar wel ander musiekinstrumente.

Die liedere wat gesing was, was dié wat normaalweg gesing was by ander dienste en die musiek was stemmig.

Hulle het net probeer om die jongmense meer betrokke by die kerk te kry. Toe word hulle daarvan beskuldig dat hulle onprofessioneel is (deur mev dominee en geen klagtes van die gemeente nie!).

Natuurlik is hulle nie professioneel nie, maar net 'n paar jongmense wat graag wil kerk toe gaan. Niemand kla as die orrelis 'n paar foute maak nie.

Nou is daar nog 'n paar jongmense wat nie meer kerk toe gaan nie (ek sou ook nie as ek hulle was nie) en die kerke moenie kla dat hulle leegloop nie.

Bekommerde kerkraadslid

Bad service from cellphone shop


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WE all want to see Paarl flourish and have people spend money locally, but after my terrible experience involving a local business (MTN Paarl Mobile Solutions) I don't see how I can support them anymore.

I needed my Motorola phone repaired and handed it in at our local MTN store on 27 November.

After a myriad of calls, follow-up calls and then some more calls I managed to find out that the cost to repair the phone would be R180. I promptly paid this amount on 7 January and gave MTN a copy of the deposit slip.

Every time that I visited the shop they blamed the courier, the workshop or said that the phone is in Johannesburg. They made no effort to help me.

I got no loan phone and I only got my phone back on 23 January after phoning the Western Cape manager - nearly two months later.

Why did I have to turn the heat up to such a degree in order to get my phone back?

Meanwhile I had been paying subscription fees for two months without a phone.

I have been a loyal MTN client for four years, but this doesn't mean a thing to them so I have decided to cancel my MTN contract.

They spend millions on advertising - how about putting some money into customer service?

Elizma Hanekom

ACR Correia, Director of Mobile Solutions, replies:

Due to an oversight at our taore due to a staff change, the phone was only booked into MTN SP Workshop located in Johannesburg on 15 December 2003 (a delay of two weeks).

For this oversight on our part we are prepared to refund the customer her full month's subscription of R129,50 plus other compulsory monthly charges.

A deposit for the amount of R152,34 will be made into the client's MTN account in the course of this week.

As the phone was out of warranty the client was phoned by MTN SP on 17 December to state the repairs to her phone would cost R180 and that this amount was to be paid into the MTN SP bank account. The bank account details were supplied to the client.

The client failed to act on this phone call and on 4 January 2004 MTN SP contacted our Paarl store who immediately contacted the client to deposit the money into the Bank account.

The client did so on 7 January at the Standard Bank in Paarl.

On 15 January (a Thursday) the phone was ready at the MTN SP workshop in Johannisburg and as they only despatch phones to Paarl once a week (normally on a Monday), the phone was sent the following Monday 19 January.

The phone was received in Paarl on 21 January and the client collected it.

From the above facts the longest delay was due to the client's failure to deposit the repair costs for over 3 weeks.

(The client denies that she was contacted on 17 December - the first contact was a phone call she received early in January. - Ed.)

Dankie aan Buurtwag


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EK wil die Buurtwag van Chicago bedank vir hul vinnige optrede toe 'n jong seun onlangs my handsak gegryp het by 'n supermark in die omgewing.

Mense wat die seun herken het, het sy naam en adres verskaf en die buurtwag het my handsak met al my dokumente binne 'n kort tydjie teruggekry. Dit was 'n groot verligting.

Die polisie het ook vinnig opgetree en die oortreder toegesluit. Dankie daarvoor.

Magdalene Jacobs

Nagklubs het dwelms


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EK wil graag verwys na 'n berig 'n paar maande gelede waarin die bestuur van 'n gewilde Paarlse nagklub beweer het dat hulle alles in hul vermoë doen om hierdie dansplek "drug free" te maak.

Ouers let wel. Plaaslike kuierplekke is 'n nes van dwelmbedrywighede en ons kinders is die slagoffers wat Ecstasy gebruik.

Een vraag aan verkopers. Julle weet wie julle is, sal julle dit aan julle kinders gee?

Bekommerde ouer


		Dit raak warmer in Drakenstein
	Editorial


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SKAARS is die datum vir die provinsiale en nasionale verkiesing aangekondig, of dinge begin warmer word in Drakenstein.

Politieke partye begin hul vere regskud en vergaderings om kiesers te wen, is aan die orde van die dag.

'n Verkiesing is 'n opwindende tyd met beloftes van verandering en verbetering wat op die horison wink.

Hierdie winde van verandering roer ook ons stadsraad, met verskeie van die lede wat nou met hul aspirasies tot hoër poste op die mou loop.

Ses van die NNP-lede in die Raad is reeds genomineer vir moontlike verkiesing tot die parlement.

Daar word nou met groot afwagting uitgesien na die ander partye se kandidate, veral dié met raadsverbintenisse.

Sou 'n groot gros van dié genomineerdes die stadsraad verlaat, kan dit nie net tot tussenverkiesings lei nie, maar selfs ook 'n magsverskuiwing in die raad veroorsaak.

Die mense wat natuurlik die mag in hul hande het, is die kiesers wat op 14 April hul kruisies moet gaan trek.

En hulle kan verseker wees dat tussen nou en die verkiesing hulle nog 'n oordosis sal kry van kandidate se goeie punte (en ook die opposisie se slegtes).

Terwyl 'n mens voorsiening maak vir die normale verkiesingsgees, hoop jy tog dat kiesers nie heeltemal sal vergeet van kandidate se bewese diensrekord nie.

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