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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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Still going strong 🖤🇿🇦 OurFiresideStorie

Still going strong 🖤🇿🇦

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Sure there’s crime and load shedding… but ther

Sure there’s crime and load shedding… but there’s also jellytot chocolate, Tropica and Springbok Monopoly 😂🤷‍♀️🇿🇦 Thank you @marcusmaschwitz for sharing your holiday and making me lus for sweets (that aren’t flippen orange flavoured chocolate😉)❤️

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“I use my dad’s step ladder to peer over into

“I use my dad’s step ladder to peer over into our neighbour’s garden. It is beige, like ours, and there are children, too. I tell them my name is Caitlyn because, at 5, I figure I can be whatever I want, which is to co-pilot a stealth helicopter that lives in a mountain and be in a fake-platonic relationship with an ex-army guy called Stringfellow.” #childhood

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#nostalgia #Germiston #southafrica #theeighties

Home. #williamkentridgestudio

Home.

#williamkentridgestudio

#childhood #carebears 💕💛

#childhood #carebears 💕💛

My mom sent me this vid of her new lights…but LI

My mom sent me this vid of her new lights…but LISTEN 🦗🎶✨ Right!? Sounds of home 🥰🇿🇦 #magical

The moon in Joburg tonight (thanks mom!) 🌕 #hom

The moon in Joburg tonight (thanks mom!) 🌕 #home

🎵🎶🎤 Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika…. (tuneless

🎵🎶🎤 Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika…. (tuneless but heartfelt👀😬🇿🇦❤️) Also, Amelia 🤣 #thenerves

When the @springboksofficial win… 🇿🇦🕺✨💥

Post match huddle 😂🇿🇦 #welovethespringbok

Post match huddle 😂🇿🇦 #welovethespringboks

If I was an elephant, I’d want to look something

If I was an elephant, I’d want to look something like this 😉🐘 #home #decoupage

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#thenineties #nostalgia #milkylane

Milky Lane. But not just Milky Lane. Friday nights

Milky Lane. But not just Milky Lane. Friday nights, Saturday mornings, Sunday afternoons. Read more at OurFiresideStories.com 🇿🇦🔥

#thenineties #nostalgia #milkylane #eastgate #johannesburg #joburg #joburglife

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#milkylane #thenineties #nostalgia

Merch to come soon 😉 #soexcited about this idea

Merch to come soon 😉 #soexcited about this idea🇿🇦 @crazyprawntiedye

In case you forgot 🫣😬👹 (Thanks for this

In case you forgot 🫣😬👹

(Thanks for this @anjamaschwitz 😂)

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Almost like a sunset 🌅 (Sadly none of it’s mi

Almost like a sunset 🌅 (Sadly none of it’s mine 🥲—what do you guys think, £100’s worth?).

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When your children decide to play #monopoly 20 min

When your children decide to play #monopoly 20 minutes before school 🫣 I humoured them because it’s South African Monopoly #suckerforhome 🇿🇦😬…it took them 5 minutes to start arguing over money, and then I regretted my humour.

#nostalgia

This book. It’s everything you’ll want it to b

This book. It’s everything you’ll want it to but also everything you won’t want it to be #mustread 🇿🇦

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Every day for five years I drove across a wave of

Every day for five years I drove across a wave of dreams and despair conjured by history along that old road—toll for passage to Rand Afrikaans University. In and out, to and from. Voices on the wind. #LouisBotha

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#johannesburg #southafrica #nostalgia

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Tell me you guys remember these!?🤪 Our pal @mar

Tell me you guys remember these!?🤪 Our pal @marcusmaschwitz used to sell them at school/per sheet 😂 #childhood #thenineties

It’s been more than 20 years since I saw real li

It’s been more than 20 years since I saw real life @williamkentridgestudio—so grateful to the @royalacademyarts for this absolute gem of an exhibition. Took the kids and let them roam. Enjoyed explaining Soho Eckstein and Ubu 👀 Go, if you can!😍

Can’t help but notice bits of home🇿🇦, even

Can’t help but notice bits of home🇿🇦, even at the most British of gatherings #flowertribute #QuEll👑

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