My family and I are extremely sad that our favourite weekly read, and the only one we read religiously — even on weekends containing family drama, funerals, out-of-Gauteng travel, illness, weddings, burst geysers, leaking pools, load shedding, undergraduate marking and children’s parties — is closing shop.
Thank you for putting together a paper that was always informative, beautifully written, provocative and politically complex.
The Weekender made me laugh, wonder, think and change my mind about various issues after reading it.
Its reviews made me buy books I would not otherwise have, even though too much of my income already goes to bookshops.
Every weekend, my partner and I shared our copy, re-read sections to each other, and rescued bits from our toddler son who always wanted some part to write on and then stuff into a toy- box, bath tub or bin.
I am not really much of a Business Day reader, although I might need to become one now.
Thank you for publishing longer versions of my own and other people’s work than is usually allowed by the space allocated to opinion in newspapers.
I have been a bit lax about the paper recycling drop off, (plastic is really my obsession) so we have a few back issues of The Weekender still which I am now loath to throw away.
Eish! Please tell me that the online archive will remain for nostalgic readers.
Thanks again for The Weekender.
Pumla Dineo Gqola
Johannesburg