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The Power of the Public Holiday

01/05/201502/02/2017 Shelley (thedealis)Community, Opinion

South Africans are a funny bunch. The one thing we love desperately…is a public holiday. Especially if there is a long weekend involved. The shops are packed. The streets are full. The braai is on. It just gets crazier around […]

Freedom in Bondage

27/04/201502/02/2017 Shelley (thedealis)Community, Opinion

Freedom, in my mind, is being unshackled by slavery. Being unfettered by limitation. Deliverance and emancipation from oppression. South Africa is deemed free as a nation. But are we truly free? We have children running wild. Waving guns. Starved. […]