Living down here in the Cape, I am getting more and more disgusted at the way the so-called coloureds are being treated. Too black under apartheid, too white under neo-apartheid. So I can identify with the Eldorado Park people's frustration. Not that I agree with violence and destruction, but as one of my friends said, what more can we do - the blacks get everything, and we get nothing. And down here it's even probably worse, because as they say, the blacks are mainly from the Eastern Cape, and have no roots at all! I also realise the council's difficulties, because they've been left with a terrible situation by the ANC, much like Mashaba in Jo'burg. As a ratepayer, I get increasingly cross at my lack of service delivery at times, because 70% of my rates are spent on 'pro-poor' initiatives, which basically means the Eastern Cape villages of Khayelitsha, KayaMandi, Masiphumelele, Imizamo Yethu and so on. What's worse is they continually whinge and protest as if we owe them!