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A NEW NORMAL

I WAS A FIVE-YEAR-OLD GIRL We lived in a small township called Makwarela in the former Bantustan of Venda, now Limpopo. My mother went to Pretoria for a few weeks first to survey the lay of the land. She wasn’t sure whether to thrust her family into a new normal, a world we knew nothing about. When she recounts the story, she says I told her she was not allowed to leave us ever again. If she was moving, so

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