April 15th, 2020 - Week three of our countrywide lockdown. The South African economy is in free fall and with it, the subsistence of millions of lives.
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From Sicily, with love. | Part 2
Christie Peruso.
Photographed by Pierre F. Lombard.
From Sicily, with love. | Part 1
Christie Peruso.
Photographed by Pierre F. Lombard.
Of course you have free will, or do you?
What did you do to deserve where you were born? Did you choose the U.S. over North Korea? Paris over Riyadh? What did you do to deserve the parents whom you were born to? What about the school you attended or the teachers you were subjected to?
The answer to all of these factors is an emphatic, ‘Nothing’.
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Late one Friday afternoon Suskia and I drove out to Sandy Bay, a secluded beach near Cape Town that remains unscathed to this day, bulwarked against man’s imperious hands by two towering peaks…
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