DEAR Editor,-
With reference to the front page article entitled ‘Sheppie CBD needs help’ (SCH October 4), as well as to the young guys who pester motorists at the Oribi Plaza intersection.
I fell for this lark for many years, buying packages of food from Pick n Pay and handing it over with money.
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About a month ago, the security guard at the centre spoke to me and told me that I was wrong and that I shouldn’t support these guys because, like his younger brother, these boys have left their rural homes and moved to the ‘bright lights’ that offers excitement and fun.
They then expect strangers to provide for them.
There’s never a thought for their poor families, especially their mothers, who are left worrying and in tears every night, crying for their lost sons.
The guard told me that if they had stayed at home they would have been educated, fed and could help their mothers with their little farms and provide assistance with younger siblings etcetera.
I learned a big lesson.
Do not, under any circumstances, support these youngsters in any way, it will only encourage more and more of their peers to emulate abandoning their lives and family responsibilities.
Then, without any assistance from the public, they will be forced to go back to their families.
DOUG MARITZ
Umtentweni
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