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Small Adventure
I wonder if it’s still there, the veldjie or little veldt, a block away from my childhood home. Surrounded by suburbia, typical South African city homes, the patch of unbuilt land sat like a brown,...
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Thanks a lot, Mister Fick
I’m sure I was one of the more annoying kids in school. I wasn’t a rebel, and I wasn’t a nerd. I was something in between, probably more self-absorbed than most, and with more kinks in my soul than I...
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Details in the fabric
It was a hopeless case. I’d only cycled two kilometres out of my intended fifty kilometre journey, and I was finished. Two kilometres of the steepest path I’d ever cycled lay behind me, and ahead of...
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Vertically challenged
I worked with a girl once who was very short. She one day talked about this and that and mentioned that she belonged to some organisation which looked out for the special needs of the vertically...
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The evil within
Ken jy my nou? Het jy die spieel gesien, en ken jy jou? Wanneer jy wil vlug uit die stad wat brand, dan vlug ek saam soos 'n vrou aan jou hand. That means: Do you know me now? Have you looked into...
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A funny thing happened while I was sucking gunk from myself…
If you are easily grossed out, I recommend you stop reading right now. That’s a bit of an ick title, but unfortunately, it’s accurate. Last year, I managed to get myself hospitalised with a de novo...
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Memories!
I stumbled across this old South African ad on YouTube. The guy with the guitar is David Kramer. The David Kramer Volkswagen ads ran for sixteen years. The company really got it right often with...
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