My 13-year-old son has soccer practice at his old school on the West Rand every Saturday morning, and I watched him happily playing with his mates without a care in the world this past weekend.

This has been the routine since he was seven years old and he insisted on maintaining this tradition even after leaving  this school two years ago...

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