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In early winter there was an unexpected lull between deadlines, so I drove from Cape Town to Barrydale to visit a new retreat with a few other media people. The first major Cape winter storm was looming but in the Little Karoo the fire was crackling,

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“I'm going to kill him and kill him dead,” I hear a young woman from my neighbourhood saying through clenched teeth. She is part of a group of early birds that regularly flocks to a little coffee cart that parks for an hour or two each morning on a q