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the political potential of the unofficial realms of

collective action and I strongly feel that this is an
area that needs to be looked at. Throughout the

pilgrimage there were several questions which
preoccupied much of my journey. … How do we

strike the balance for sociological, religious, cultural
or traditional human needs and the ecological

requirements of the estuaries? How do we cascade
ecological and advocacy programmes to the most

vulnerable communities; for example,
communicating the presence of concentrations of
particular substances in the water such as the

nutrients, the physical variables and some toxic

substances? What was new learning? There were
quite a number of new learnings for me. Such as the
operational plans … targeted at protecting diversity

within, for example, the Swartkops Estuary … [to]
ensure that diversity, distribution and abundance of

plants and fish is maintained or restored.
(photo on p. 171: Mbokazi Ngayeka.)

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