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Category: Seventies

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The other side

Because everyone has a story worth telling…

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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So, I never really cared for #fizzers when I was b

So, I never really cared for #fizzers when I was back home 🇿🇦 BUT… there is something about wanting the thing you can’t have. Anyway, Delilah would have eaten them with the paper on 🫣 (Thank you @marionsmallbones 💕) #expatlife #nostalgia

Thank you @nandosuk #oxfordstreet for this little

Thank you @nandosuk #oxfordstreet for this little piece of home 🇿🇦✨ #expatlife #nostalgia

Thank you @sheltermuswellhill for these beauties✨🌍 #home #africa #expatlife #southafrica🇿🇦

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🎶 Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika🎶We’re trying to t

🎶 Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika🎶We’re trying to teach Delilah (and Aiden) the South African national anthem…pretty good so far 😬😍🇿🇦 (Definitely looking forward to the Afrikaans verse 🤣🫣) #godblessafrica #expatlife

Stumbled on this gem the other day🤣…that time

Stumbled on this gem the other day🤣…that time we voted🇿🇦 in Trafalgar Square. My passport has long since expired. There is some sadness in that; also not 🤔 #nostalgia

I read this because I was curious… …interesti

I read this because I was curious…

…interesting to think about how South Africa has fared in holding up the values of transitional justice. And where I fit in all of it—as a South African, as a human being, as a mother, as me🤔

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Right!?😬✨🇿🇦👌

Mom! Thanks for sharing pics of your lekker holida

Mom! Thanks for sharing pics of your lekker holiday. ✨Miss you✨🇿🇦 #portshepstone

☕️🌼🏄‍♀️🌊 #momsinportshepstone

☕️🌼🏄‍♀️🌊 #momsinportshepstone

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Check out these cheeky guys👀🐒 #momsinportshe

Check out these cheeky guys👀🐒 #momsinportshepstone

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Mom’s lekker holiday #portshepstone

Mom’s lekker holiday #portshepstone

Thank you mom ❤️🐘🇿🇦 OurFiresideStori

Thank you mom ❤️🐘🇿🇦

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Today, I sat looking at the blue London sky over M

Today, I sat looking at the blue London sky over Marble Arch as my littlest daughter shooed pigeons away from our picnic lunch…
…who would have thought, forty years ago in the Moedersbond hospital in Pretoria, that this is where I’d be in this moment✨🇿🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #expatlife #birthdayvibes

What’s a holiday in South Africa without a potho

What’s a holiday in South Africa without a pothole and a flat tyre? 😂🤦‍♀️ #momsinportshepstone

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African sunset 🌅 #momsinportshepstone OurFires

African sunset 🌅 #momsinportshepstone

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African autumn 🍂 My momma has done the Joburg

African autumn 🍂

My momma has done the Joburg school holiday thing and popped off to Port Shepston 👌 Loving her pics! #welljel

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Honestly, this made me laugh so much…the sluuurp

Honestly, this made me laugh so much…the sluuurping🤣💚 #creamsoda #expatlifesingapore

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I think I’m turning into a stereotype 👀🤣😬 #dontcare #thesunisout #expatlife

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Fizz Pop❤️ What’s your favourite flavour? 😬 #expatlife

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#london @southbankcentre 🇿🇦

#london @southbankcentre 🇿🇦

Thank you @the_south_african_shop 🤩😬🇿🇦

Thank you @the_south_african_shop 🤩😬🇿🇦

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