CHARMAIN NAIDOO: South Africa's moment of deep, crushing shame
'For the first time I literally have my heart in my throat: the fear is palpable'
I am rewriting my column… I woke up this morning, Friday, the last day of March 2017, with a sense of dread I have not felt before. Editor and curator of this site, and columnist Ray Hartley described it as being in another country after stepping through the looking glass. Only instead of Alice and the weird and wonderful inhabitants of Wonderland that we encounter, it’s more The Magicians’ author Lev Grossman’s dangerous and malevolent creatures in the enchanted land of Filory that we are doomed to meet. For the first time I literally have my heart in my throat: the fear is palpable. I stood in the shower, luxuriating in the steaming hot water, reaching for my L’Occitane shampoo and my Crabtree and Evelyn soap, realising that this scenario is short lived. Already the rand is tanking so goodbye imported branded goods. Actually, my fear is more pressing. I am at the age where having to draw on my pension is a mere decade away. That’s 10 years to erode what I have spent a lifetime wor...
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