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Shadows of home

Pigs

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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Read a collection of tales from South Africa 🇿🇦 The messy, tragic, beautiful, funny fables that make us who we are and remind us where we come from✨

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Isandlwana circa 1994😱 #schooltrip

Isandlwana circa 1994😱 #schooltrip

Yessss @kikky_huntingford 👊These badboys were g

Yessss @kikky_huntingford 👊These badboys were gone in seconds🤣✨🇿🇦 #koeksisters

Joost, James Small, James Dalton circa ‘95… an

Joost, James Small, James Dalton circa ‘95… and now Pieter Steph 🇿🇦💚💥🏉 👊

Bokke💚🇿🇦🏉💥

🏉🎉❤️🇿🇦🕺🦈🏉🤩 @tottenhamh

🏉🎉❤️🇿🇦🕺🦈🏉🤩 @tottenhamhotspurstadium #sharksrugby #epcrchallengecup #challengecup

Thanks @makazoli for an absolute BOSS of a try and

Thanks @makazoli for an absolute BOSS of a try and for making our night 🕺🤩🦈🇿🇦🏟️🏆🏉 SO MUCH FUN #forsouthafrica

This is how we do it 🇿🇦🏆🤩🦈 #epcrcha

This is how we do it 🇿🇦🏆🤩🦈 #epcrchallengecup #challengecup @tottenhamhotspurstadium

Anyone jealous? 😬😬😬

Anyone jealous? 😬😬😬

International week at the kids’ school #myfavour

International week at the kids’ school #myfavourite🇿🇦

18 years ago, today. And a hundred years ago #joke

18 years ago, today. And a hundred years ago #jokes. I like your hat, mom😉

So, when my pal @marcusmaschwitz visits home with

So, when my pal @marcusmaschwitz visits home with his little girl on a daddy-daughter trip every year, he always sends me the BEST snaps. I mean, chicken-mayo toasties, milk tart doughnuts, flippen tennis biscuit rusk things. It kills me🙃🇿🇦

Is that Pieter Steph du Toit’s ACTUAL rugby jers

Is that Pieter Steph du Toit’s ACTUAL rugby jersey? #forreals (she gave it back and then cried later 🤣😬)

Treasures from The South African Shop🇿🇦 How

Treasures from The South African Shop🇿🇦 How king did they last? Milliseconds 🤦‍♀️

Anyone else eat this straight from the packet as a

Anyone else eat this straight from the packet as a kid? 🤣😱

Shongololo 🖤 🇿🇦

Shongololo 🖤 🇿🇦

Beloved place. #underberg

Beloved place. #underberg

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