Durban Fury Unleashed: Racist Documentary Lies, Epstein Elite Scandals with Gates & Musk, and Municipal Meltdown – Readers Speak Out!

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Reader's WhatsApp's

Clean up the mess: The Metro Police, SAPS and eThekwini Municipality are failing ratepayers. They cannot eradicate (get rid) the problem in Che Guevara Road with the vagrants occupying the road. This roadway has become so dangerous to use. The eThekwini Municipality, Metro Police and SAPS have all failed to remove these vagrants, who will pounce on innocent ratepayers. | Pradesh Sivaganas

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The Durban Municipality is once again short changing ratepayers who pay so much for lights and water on a monthly basis. These thieves have even gone to the extent of issuing small and cheap quality bin bags. We are simply paying too much for utility services and the service delivery has gone to the dogs. | Raj Naidoo

Letters to the editor

Documentary skews Durban’s true story

There is a documentary on YouTube on the history of Durban, titled, An Epic 100-Year Journey, 1850 To1970.

There are other documentaries, as well, on Durban on YouTube but this one is significant. It steals the show, graphically, showing how biased, racist and selfish the whites were back then.

The documentary highlights how the white settlers turned the sand dunes and swamplands of Durban into a bustling city and port, third-biggest city in the country and the busiest port on the continent. It shows the beautiful Victoria Embankment, now Margaret Mncadi Avenue, the all-white Golden Mile, passenger ships in port, the City Hall, the glamour of the Greyville Racecourse and British royalty – King George VI, Queen Elizabeth and the two princesses – on their visit to the city in 1947.

But what is reprehensible about this documentary is that focuses solely on the white race. There’s not one picture or word of the other races, the Blacks. Indians and Coloureds who also lived in the city.

Did the Whites build this city all by themselves, only with their skill and labour?

Didn’t the other race groups also help to build Durban?

Didn’t gangs of Black labourers slog away in the heat to build the railway lines?

No mention, too, of the first indentured Indian labourers who came in 1860 to work in the cane fields, of how they made the English sugar barons rich because of their back-breaking work, turning the bush into lush sugar cane fields.

Nor any acknowledgement of their significant contribution to the growth of the city.

How could this documentary so blatantly ignore the contributions of the other race groups?

How could the commentator with a British accent speak so glowingly about the White settlers – how they made Durban blossom from “a humble beginning into a beautiful city”?

How could the British, fastidious about manners and propriety, be so untruthful? It makes you wonder how many lies the British colonialists spread around the world. What lies could there have been in the history books!

Disgusting! | Thyagaraj Markandan Kloof

Who is responsible for a moral society?

Historically, lechery, sex and politics go hand-in-hand.

An example of this would be the French courts of Louis XIV, where sexual politics was a defining feature of life at Versailles.

The court used sexual relationships as part of its political hierarchy, with the king’s favour being highly sought after, so the release of the infamous Epstein files has shown the world nothing new: Lechery, power and wealth are all bedfellows. It is not novel and those who are shocked at the list of well-known names included in the files, are, at best naïve, at worst, stupid.

Reaching the upper echelons of high society and influence, it appears that most of the "good guys" are really the worst of the lot. Bill Gates for example, the nerdy do-gooder Microsoft billionaire, was apparently discussing pandemic simulations and preparations with Epstein over email.

Bill Gates, Deepak Chopra, Elon Musk – all of whom have amassed colossal amounts of wealth, ostensibly for the greater good of mankind – have proven that the only mankind they care about are young, nubile underage nymphs. World leaders, government employees, European loyalty even, the leaders, policy makers and decision-makers of the world, have been exposed, showing the world what really goes on when nobody is watching. Again. No surprises.

Did we really think that billionaires like Elon go ice skating in their free time?

It is these leaders who shape the fabric of our society and the parameters of our lives with their technology, influence and money. If the head of the fish is rotten, the entire carcass is spoiled. We are the carcass  us, the normal, regular citizens of the world.

How can we trust Elon Musk when he assures Twitter users that they will be safe from sexual abuse on his platform?

Not a single person will take vaccine advice from Gates again, I am sure.

It is no wonder then that the society we live in has become so corrupt – where abuse of every kind takes place on the daily.

Why are we so surprised that no one lifted a finger to help the people of Gaza except for a few?

Ironically, it is those same people who were on the side of Gaza, who did not appear in the Epstein files.

Go figure.

Who is responsible for building a moral world? A world where there is true justice, integrity, freedom and democracy? Where these words become more, where they become ideals and values that are not used abstractly in government speeches to win votes?

Maybe we should look at those we refer to as the enemy, or terrorists. You will not find any of them in the Epstein files. But there was Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak and plenty of unsavoury details that will forever taint the British Royal Family.

Those who genuinely seek a world where morality exists, let them look to Gaza, let them look to those countries or leaders loathed by the West.

The Epstein files were made the US and every single person implicated in those files are now the outcasts of the world.

History never forgets. | Zaynab Naushaad Khan Durban

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