News from the SA water sector January 2017

Abstract

Fluid Thoughts Fluid Thoughts Saying goodbye to Fidel In November 2016 Fidel Castro said goodbye to the world at the age of 90. Tributes piled in from every quarter, and even traditional enemies from the Cold War era, such as the United States, guardedly admitted that Fidel’s influence on the shaping of the globe in the 20th century was immense and could not be ignored. Closer to home, there was a dramatic re-surfacing of a blackwhite divide in every radio show and social media platform that chose to talk about Fidel. On the one side – the white side – was the familiar eruption of ‘rooi gevaar’ that I remember so vividly from my childhood years. The stories of communist brutality and oppression that we were being saved from by the benevolent apartheid regime who either failed to assimilate the paradox of their position or that simply thought that the rest of were just ignorant. Why else would we accept their cruel repression if we were anything but.

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