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From Emma’s Reflections

“I am in Grahamstown right now … for work, and it

is quite an apt pace to be after the pilgrimage

because the water situation here is particularly
bad. Water trucks are bringing water into the
university and … we are very careful in the town

not to flush the toilets too often, and I bring water
with me, my rainwater, to drink and even to wash

up with. So, there’s a very clear relationship with
water going on, but there’s also this other side of

things, where in the staffroom at work, there are
people who live in the community on the outskirts

of town that are not under the Rhodes jurisdiction
and in townships, so to speak, and those people

have not had any water whatsoever for weeks
now. They are also suffering load-shedding at the
same time. So there’s this real division going on

right now, that I can see, between being on

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