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Festive season message from the editor

ZimkhithaBy ZimkhithaDecember 14, 2009No Comments2 Mins Read
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The staff of Grocott’s Mail feels very close to the community we serve because we are part of it. When there are power cuts, water outages or municipal strikes they affect us directly. We report on these inconveniences from firsthand experience.

The staff of Grocott’s Mail feels very close to the community we serve because we are part of it. When there are power cuts, water outages or municipal strikes they affect us directly. We report on these inconveniences from firsthand experience.

We send our children to the schools we write about, so when we express concern about the quality of education in our schools we are not writing from a distance. The future of our own children is at stake.
We wait for ages at the new traffic lights on Church Square and wonder, like everybody else, whether it wasn’t easier to just put up with the chaos.

We too complain about how empty town is without the students, and then when they return, we grumble about how much noise they make.

In the pages of this newspaper you will often see articles critical of our political leaders, of the police services and of our businesspeople. We do so not as neutral observers but as concerned participants – we have a vested interest in the wellbeing of this community because we live in it.

It is this direct involvement that distinguishes a community newspaper like ours from big city media houses. We know the people we write about. We celebrate with the happy faces on the Applause page, we bask in the triumphs of our sports stars and we shed tears with those who suffer losses.

For these reasons, when we wish all those who live in the greater Makana area, and especially our readers a joyful festive season, we do so with the utmost sincerity. We hope that your year-end celebrations are uplifting and serve as a prelude to an even more wonderful and rewarding 2010. 

Rejoice and take care,
Steven Lang
 

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