No doubt JZ will be there in struggle solidarity with his dear friend Schabir when he walks through the prison gates. He might as well take a good look around at the accommodation, because he's next.

The press is glorifying Shaik in large, rosy photographs when a small police file mugshot would do.

Zuma's rendering of Bring Me My Machinegun has led to him shooting himself in the foot.

The outcome of the Shaik appeal renews my faith in our judicial system.

Now that Shaik's appeal has been turned down, perhaps the tender board ought to review the various contracts he secured, particularly the rip-off driving licence contract. - R Symons, Table View

Schabir Shaik shouldn't take the fall alone. It takes two people to have a 'corrupt relationship'. If Zuma refused the payments, Schabir wouldn't be in this mess. Zuma must also be convicted.

Now that Shaik's all shook up looks like Lion's Head won't be renamed Jacob's Head.

Under PW you had national service - you also had homelands, Group Areas, the Immorality Act etc. We did not have the vote. My future was determined by you. I shudder to think if Jacob Zuma had died, and Mbeki had asked for flags to be flown at half-mast, how those people now singing PW's praises would have reacted.

Name the N2 after PW. The N2-Wildernis should be known as 'Die Rubikon', as it is in any case shifting into the sea or a 'Watergraf'.

Please stop all the jokes about PW. How does his family feel? Show some respect for the dead.

We do have something named after PW - Poor Whites.

While a taxi driver is illegally overtaking vehicles and has a head-on collision with a bus, five traffic officers are hiding down a side-street in Claremont targeting mothers in lift schemes because residents don't like traffic outside their houses. Time to catch a wake up, officers, and go police the streets where people's lives are at stake - never mind your fine quota for the week.

The traffic officers in Claremont have shown their 'muscle' once again. Hiding as an insecure gang down a side-street fining mothers in lift schemes instead of facing the belligerent taxis on Stanhope Bridge. Do you then relax for the rest of the day at the abandoned Claremont bowling clubhouse?

My guess is no one will see the vehicles with high fines. By the time you read this they will have changed their numberplates.

Top 10 traffic fine offenders? Smug revelation, Metro cops. Embarrassing, I think? Do your job and catch and arrest, instead of hiding behind a bush for us who pay.

e.tv, please stop airing porn films on Friday and Saturday nights. Do you actually believe children are asleep at that time? What type of children are we going to raise? Rapists? Paedophiles? Perverts? If these porn shows are keeping policemen from serving their communities, what are they doing to everybody else?

What have we poor people done to be denied the pleasure of watching cricket, rugby and tennis on TV?

Why did we not see the ICC final on the SABC, only the semi-final involving SA? Who said all South Africans only watch SA play? I also pay my TV licence regularly.

Why are the planners for 2010 wasting time fighting to put their stadium where people don't want it? Wouldn't the time be better spent starting somewhere else?

How come when soccer is mentioned in affluent areas, building of stadiums suddenly becomes an issue. They should be educated enough to realise that the government can expropriate land. And in this case, the revenue the World Cup can bring to our city is worth much more than the myth of soccer hooligans.

Capitalism is the cause of poverty in Africa. They only invest were they can exploit the poor people. - I Carr

Long, long breaks during matric exams. yet technical drawing HG kids have to write two papers on the 22nd. Six to seven hours on the same day is unacceptable.

With circumcision as a 65%-successful Aids preventative measure, how can you run a youth supplement called Uncut?

So De Lille believes the youth will save the city? Does that mean she will now canvass future generations to vote for her? Makes sense, I guess, because the current crop of voters won't vote for her again.

I also have more than 35 years' experience and my take-home pay is also R6 000. I raised four kids and paid for their studies. Nurses in particular moan too much. If they not happy with their salaries, then they must quit and get jobs that offer more pay.

The police have had good increases in the past. At no time did the quality of their service improve. Their rate of success has been in steady decline for decades.

I am a 35-year-old white. Why am I still paying for my grandparents' sins?

If Springbok manager Zola Yeye can afford to buy Armani cologne and his precious cellphone he is being paid too much.

Some mindless individual was letting off crackers in lower Claremont all afternoon on Monday. Don't these morons know that's illegal, or don't they care?

Why doesn't Mbeki ever address his nation about his solution to crime and corruption?

If Saddam Hussein is hanged, he will be seen as a martyr and a hero. Put him in a prison for life, doing the hardest of hard labour.

Guy Macleod, I assure you that an executed criminal will not re-offend, his or her victim will receive justice and the taxpayer will not be burdened.

'Tree felling'? Absurd. This is commercial harvesting at huge profit. TMNP should publicly disclose the details of this 'felling' agreement of prime pine stands.

The law states that to entice a person to commit a crime is an crime in itself. If reporters do it, it's called investigative journalism. If a policeman does it, he is suspended, fired or sent to Koekenaap.

The Shaik verdict has saved SA from a Zuma presidency and therefore saved our democracy. So no more anti-lawyer jokes.

With acknowledgements to Cape Argus.