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The devil in the bottle
You have never lived until you have been a member of a stokvel. Ask me, I have lived. I can drink for the whole night, my bra. I can tell...
The pavement people
The sun does not shine for all of us. For some people it never shines at all. Their day only starts at night when most of us are safely...
A night under the stars
When bad luck comes, it does not come in bits and pieces. It comes in buckets, like the summer rain. When you hear what happened to me...
A visit to the Thembisa Advice Office
Maria Mathebula, a mother of two children, sat in the office with a very worried look on her face. She had worked for a company for five...
Think once, think twice
If you think that Johannesburg is a city with a heart of gold, you have not met the jackals who dress in peoples’ clothes and who live...
Victory is certain
When COSAS was banned in 1985, the youth of South Africa were left withÂout an organisation that they could call their own. Now, with the...
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