Cruiser's Lac: taking the trip without trippin': What is all the fuss about????
Cruiser's Lac: taking the trip without trippin': What is all the fuss about????
Part of the reason that Apartheid went on for so long is white South Africa’s refusal to acknowledge the facts of the situation even when evidence lay bare and naked before them.
A few years ago, our then president, Thabo Mbeki refused to believe that there was any connection between AIDS and HIV. Our Health Minister, Manto Tshabalala took her time rolling out antiretroviral treatment to a country in desperate need, because she just could not admit that Beetroot was no good as treatment.
It pains me to see the same denialist attitude expressed in your piece. Despite hard evidence from those in the know, you ask us to look the other way and pretend we do not know that the only reason our friend lost his DP is his hard partying and hard drinking.
Apartheid stole the lives of many innocent men and women (black and white). The denial of AIDS and its treatment from our leadership did nothing for AIDS statistics; they continued to rocket.
Phrases like your “what’s the fuss” while the party goes ahead and the work is neglected cannot be good for neither our reputation as Rhodes students nor our academic performance.
It seems as though you have forgotten that there is never smoke without fire.
Part of the reason that Apartheid went on for so long is white South Africa’s refusal to acknowledge the facts of the situation even when evidence lay bare and naked before them.
A few years ago, our then president, Thabo Mbeki refused to believe that there was any connection between AIDS and HIV. Our Health Minister, Manto Tshabalala took her time rolling out antiretroviral treatment to a country in desperate need, because she just could not admit that Beetroot was no good as treatment.
It pains me to see the same denialist attitude expressed in your piece. Despite hard evidence from those in the know, you ask us to look the other way and pretend we do not know that the only reason our friend lost his DP is his hard partying and hard drinking.
Apartheid stole the lives of many innocent men and women (black and white). The denial of AIDS and its treatment from our leadership did nothing for AIDS statistics; they continued to rocket.
Phrases like your “what’s the fuss” while the party goes ahead and the work is neglected cannot be good for neither our reputation as Rhodes students nor our academic performance.
It seems as though you have forgotten that there is never smoke without fire.
