LETTER: Once thriving, now forgotten: the fading future of South Africa’s small towns

The article on small towns was interesting (“Heading for the Small Towns”, Cover Story, March 6-March 19). Some of those towns, like George, Hermanus, Mossel Bay and Stellenbosch, are hardly small. The FM should do an article at the other end of the scale: small towns like Edenburg, Trompsburg, Reddersburg, Molteno, Sterkstroom and many others that used to be quaint places where you could overnight. Look at them now: no doctors, no banks, no schools, no hotels, no hospitals and no pharmacies. It’s a real shame — the platteland has been destroyed.

Peter Gordon Grant
Sedgefield

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