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I sometimes sit in a restaurant and try to work out the “boeresom” of the place – the kind of calculation you do on…
South Africa’s kidnapping scourge
It’s a significant moment in the development of a nation when ordinary citizens become the target of organised crime. Even if they just feel…
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