By: Unathi Bonga
Port Elizabeth is known as the friendliest city out of all the other cities in South Africa, with a beautiful lovely beachfront that imbues the tranquillity of a cosmopolitan city. Although it is alive with possibilities however, just about anything in the world, it has its flaws. Because it has its imperfections reminding us again that there is no such thing as perfect. Below is a list of top six places that one shall try by all means never to set foot on. I have asked fellow students about places they wish they had never gone to, and the responses were as follow:
Sandisa Ndava 23, third year Media student. “For me it has to be the Angelo’s down in Parliament Street. I always feel like I’m a diva whenever I go there because of their bad service to customers. Like the last time I went with a group of friends, it took 20 minutes for us to get attended by a waiter, imagine that!”
Honey Mnyugula 18, first year Psychology student. “I think the biggest mistake I’ve
ever done was accompanying a friend to Korsten. Four words, that place is filthy! It even has a distinctive smell of its own. I feel sorry for people who live there, it’s so loud, chaotic and a pigsty.”
Sindiswa Mpontsi, student at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Campus. “It has to be the taxi ranks, wow! Apart from the bad driving of the drivers that pisses everybody off, their work station is offensive to our sense of smell. Thank goodness I don’t have to go through that because I take the bus or walk to school, I just recently moved closer to campus.”
Xolisa Manzana 19, studying towards a BA General in South Campus. “I can only take
so much, and I have never been so distraught and disgusted by how waiters at the Tropikana restaurant in Despatch treat their black clientele. This one time a waiter called us by the K-word and I’ve never set foot there since then.”
Tshepo Motsibi, an Architectural student, had the following to say: “The townships, from what I have gathered, they are not the most pleasant places to be at. I have never been to one. I’m not from PE, so my life here is pretty much centred on the Summerstrand–Humewood area.”
Cindy Pierce 20, Print stream student. “Goven Mbeki Avenue is the place for me. I can
never find parking there; oh did I mention the potholes? There are just some places one should never go to!”
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