ON THE WATER
NEELS BLOM: Benefits could have trickled down to the poor
THE one article of heritage the member (of the Upper Jukskei Flyfishing Collective) permitted himself to celebrate at the weekend was water and the way it trickles down, or up, as the case may be. Specifically, he chose the waters of Johannesburg’s iconic Jukskei River and eponym of the member’s little angling enterprise.He chose also to avoid lamenting the good old days when it might have happened that a prospector, gormless with gold fever, found a yoke-pin lost by a predecessor among the driftwood on the water, which he named Jukskei for the first thing that came to mind. He would then have marked the place with the yoke-pin and peered into the Jukskei’s water in his pan and he would have seen the future.But events tend to overtake dreams. Take the war in Syria, for instance. In the aspirations of the combatants, wealth and power might have been the dream, but the spark that lit the conflagration began with an isolated protest over the unfair and corrupt distribution of water in ...
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