I sent the following to Daily Maverick's deputy editor Janet Heard with the note it was not necessarily for publication understanding it would not be. While Daily Maverick theoretically invites letters to the editor and op-ed contributions from readers, as Heard did to me a few months ago on another matter after I also emailed them, I've found, except for my first and only one in 2016 , they're very selective about what they publish and then usually only from people with titles and positions. The comments they discontinued at the end of 2017 with the unmet promise it would return was, therefore, the only way readers could comment on articles. Ironically, they receive funding from George Soros' Open Society Foundation for South Africa whose objective is transparency. As I told Heard in my covering email, it's unlikely they would publish it given that I criticise them, writer Marianne Merten, their "opinionista" Helen Zille and media. I agree with Daily...