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Review writing What exactly is review writing? “A review is a critical evaluation of a text, event, object or phenomenon” (Lecture content) . We judge things everyday and as a reviewer, your job is to state your opinions or judgment and support you them by presenting reasons and evidence. Review can be negative, positive or mixed. A review is when you give your personal opinion. According to a report by Bitesize, the aim of review is to offer an honest critique of the object under review, and to make recommendations to your audience.  A good review includes enough detail to give others a feel for what happened, explain which factors contributed to your positive, negative or just so-so experience. You might also offer your view on what company is doing well, and how they can improve. But keep things friendly and courteous. Being detailed, specific and honest constitute good review writing and your review should not contain information that identifies people and do not be mean. “To have

  Figure 1: Screen grab of Roeland Street map. Photo:Qaqamba Matundu   Roeland street is one of the long stretch of roads situated in the Western Cape, Cape town which is few minutes away from town in the Eastern side. It’s an extraordinary, beautiful street filled with stores, studios, have schools and carries history with historical buildings. Figure 2: The Burnt National Assembly and vandalised statue of the hero of the Boer war. Taken by Qaqamba Matundu The street starts right in front of the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa which was set alight earlier this year on the 2nd of January. The suspect, a 49-year-old man was allegedly arrested.  One of the oldest fire stations in South Africa, the Central Fire Station & Sentrale Brandweerstasie is found at the top of the street. It was opened in 1932 and its crew was there in the parliament within few minutes when it was on fire. It was honored by the Western Cape Premier Alan Winde, Cape town Meyer Gerdin Hill-Lewis and