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Month: May 2020

Levels

May 31, 2020May 31, 2020 adminLife in South Africa

Levels. What levels? For whom? It’s 11pm as I type this and there’s drag racing in my neighbourhood in Durban. I hear engines revving and tyres screeching. Curfew? They don’t care. In fact, I have[…]

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Pregnancy. No Copy and “Paste”

May 29, 2020 adminLife in South Africa

My biggest fear about being pregnant the second time was that it would not be as easy as the first time. I was correct. Boy oh boy! Perhaps the most apt phrase for a mother[…]

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Nama-stay

May 20, 2020May 20, 2020 adminLife in South Africa

“Hugging, shaking hands and kissing are things of the past.” And with those words; President Cyril Ramaphosa opened up the proverbial can of worms. It was the nudge I needed to write this post. These[…]

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Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika

May 6, 2020May 6, 2020 adminLife in South Africa

Day 41, going on 42. I’m cracking; like that delicate crack that emerges at the top of the cake while baking in the oven. As poetic as it sounds, it’s painful. I don’t have the[…]

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