people's post cartoons: 2010

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

outside Ob's

Sobering time ahead for errant nightclubs tauriq hassen

ALL nightclub and liquor outlet owners have been confronted with complaints lodged against their businesses in Observatory.

Among the concerns raised at the meeting at the Observatory Community
Centre on Wednesday 22 September were noise from patrons, the nuisance of
the patrons in public, liquor control and licensing issues.

“We have had complaints of patrons urinating in public and getting into
arguments in the early hours of the morning,” .....

One owner, who wished to remain anonymous, firmly believes that clubs
should not be held accountable for their patrons’ actions outside their
clubs.

“I still think it’s quite unfair for the owner to be held responsible for
the patrons, because some of them become so drunk that they do not know
themselves what they are doing outside,” he says.

Heritage Day

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

make some noise

“At nine minutes past nine on Thursday 9 September, people are encouraged to make a noise by ringing bells, stamping feet and jingling keys, among many other ways, as part of the international call for each time zone across the world to make a noise to focus attention on the fact that any alcohol drunk by a pregnant woman during pregnancy will affect her unborn baby.”

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

non work related cartoon

Police staffers face music over email joke

Teresa Fischer (People's Post 4th May 2010)

DISCIPLINARY procedures are ongoing in the case of a police officer and two clerks suspended for forwarding an email containing a joke about President Jacob Zuma and ANC Youth League president Julius Malema.

Two of the three women are clerks at the Woodstock police station and the third is a police officer at the Paarl East station.

In the email, Zuma and Malema are superimposed on a poster for the movie “Bad Boys”. Zuma is carrying a showerhead.

Provincial police spokesperson Colonel Billy Jones confirms the women were suspended with pay on a charge of improper conduct while on duty. This is not a criminal charge.

Jones would not discuss who laid the complaint, saying this would form part of the disciplinary process.

He says members are “duly informed” of the email policy, which prohibits non-work-related emails.

Two police officers, who asked not to be named, were not surprised by reports of the suspension.

“It is a well-known policy. We are all aware of the policy regarding private emails.”

Asked whether they thought undue sensitivity regarding Zuma and Malema was the cause of the suspension, they say: “Politics is a no-go zone because the police are supposed to be apolitical. Rigid discipline is necessary in a semi-military organisation.”

Provincial secretary of the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru), Mncedisi Mbolekwa, says the union will defend the matter.

“The employees did not act with malicious intent and have shown remorse.”

Popcru would watch the matter with interest, particularly regarding who the complainant was and why the employees had been singled out.

“We doubt very much there is any employee who doesn’t send private emails. How do they implement and police this policy?”