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Best friends and Jeppe days

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The 50c piece

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A toilet in the gramadoelas

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That time the baboons ate our firelighters

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Mystery at the Kensington Castle

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That cake – the train one with the popcorn

That time when… Sitting around the kitchen table picking at leftovers after Christmas lunch or on the stoep as the sun goes down and braai smoke acts as a catalyst for tears and tales, or around a campfire singing Kumbaya. How else do we remember if not through stories—altered by time and confused by the fragility and fallibility of memory. The messy, tragic, beautiful, funny fables that make us who we are. The South Africa of our childhood and our parents’ childhood and their parents’ childhood and their aunty’s uncle’s mother’s friend’s childhood. And the South Africa of now, of course.

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Chocolate Marie Biscuit Fudge

Best friends and Jeppe days

Winicia

The 50c piece

Lost in Hillbrow

A toilet in the gramadoelas

That time the baboons ate our firelighters

Bloody dogs!

Mystery at the Kensington Castle

That cake – the train one with the popcorn