Are We Still Two Nations – The Dusi Canoe Marathon In

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By Steuart Pennington
In 1998, 22 years ago, our then Deputy President, Thabo Mbeki in opening of the debate on nation-building commented “This reality is South Africa comprises two nations, underwritten by the perpetuation of the racial, gender and spatial disparities born of a very long period of colonial and apartheid white minority domination, constitutes the material base which reinforces the notion that, indeed, we are not one nation, but two nations. 
And neither are we becoming one nation. Consequently, also, the objective of national reconciliation is not being realised.”
 
 
I have just spent a number of days waking at 05h00 to get my daughter and her paddling partner to qualifying races for the Dusi Canoe Marathon scheduled for the 18 to 20 March. I love it. We drive deep into the bowels of the Valley of 1000 Hills down narrow roads, avoiding wandering Nguni cattle, dodging the ubiquitous taxis and being greeting by local residents. The hillside is populated by family homesteads characterised by a cluster of rondavels and rectangular dwellings, some quite substantial. Dstv disks are evident and the lights seem to be on in most houses, water storage tanks are everywhere.

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