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What the Water Brought


                               Christi van der Westhuizen











































            Christi van der Westhuizen is an         at the Tributaries colloquium            way, and witnessing the
            Associate Professor, Centre for the      entitled “What the Water Brought.”       degradation and economic and

            Advancement of Non-Racialism and         She writes that: “Visiting sites that    racial inequalities poisoning the

            Democracy, Nelson Mandela                feature as landmarks in the colonial     water masses, compelled me to find
            University. In response to the           settlement of Port Elizabeth,            out more about the ghosts that
            pilgrimage, she presented a paper        listening to the tales told along the    haunt these places.”



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