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Brain
Added: 21 Nov 2012
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Snow — 1, school – 0
Added: 20 Nov 2012
BACK in the day when teachers were right and pupils didn’t have any, we had marble season and yo-yo season. Modern schools have an annual compulsory flu season. We were in the middle of ours. The nursing sisters weren’t their usual jovial selves. Probably, because they had, in one way or another, pr...
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A short life of GRACE
Added: 10 Oct 2012
SOMEWHERE in the Midlands, the rolling hills of KwaZulu-Natal begin to lose their meandering complacency and are forced to rise to the challenge of the approaching Highveld. Here you find the little village of Lidgetton. There’s a steep dip roughly in the centre of the main road, and if you take a r...
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Nineteen sixty six
Added: 04 Oct 2012
I WAS in Standard 2, Grade 4 in today’s talk. I had all the bragging rights of a senior class pupil as Jabula School in Lidgetton was at that stage a junior primary school. I remember fondly that in that year, 1966, I had my first affection for a girl. She was a quiet and petite little girl in my cl...
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