CHARMAIN NAIDOO: The shrinking of freedom is palpable
'Are we back at the dark days of apartheid when we really could not even be called partly free?'
05 May 2017 - 20:43
I first saw the watch in the vitrine at Amods. It was a ladies watch, small and dainty, the iron pyrites on its marcasite face glinted under the glass of the display cabinet. I was transfixed. It was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. (Ok, so I was a teenager and hyperbole was my currency). My parents were schoolteachers. So that meant that they were home by 3pm most afternoons. We only ate fresh food – vegetables, or meat or fruit, bought that day and consumed within 48 hours (at most) of being deposited into our veggie holding wicker basket.
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