ON THE WATER
NEELS BLOM: Without the extinction of the spineless, the herd is at risk of perishing
The air is thick with metaphor as the rain brings relief to the South African landscape. It might not be spring, or even a South African Spring, but it feels positively seasonal as the nation watches how one species of spineless thing goes extinct and another entity rises to join the chordates — or at least to fill the gap in the food chain. These might be dangerous times, yet the main question is whether the weather and related events will be good for the fishing. Perhaps not. The newly installed flyfisher in the Union Buildings is probably having a busy time of it clearing the gutters. For the record though, the president should know that at least two flyfishing attorneys say an environmental protection racket is threatening the sanctity of the Constitution. It is, after all, a document built in part on the trust developed during a fishing incident in which one ordinary South African removed a fish hook from the flesh of another.Ian Cox, one of the hair-splitters in this debate, s...
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