Millions of South Africans say they are confused and frustrated by the debate around fracking in the Karoo because it doesn’t involve race. “It is a shameful betrayal of the traditions of South African quasi-debate,” said one. “We’ve spent years perfecting all our straw man arguments and hoarding false factoids, and now they come with rubbish about the water supply?”

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