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‘Kist’ – did you know it’s a uniquely South African word?

Rod MacKenzie by Rod MacKenzie 7 August 201511 August 2015

Recently I finished writing a novel titled Orphan Country, which is partly set in South Africa in the Seventies and Eighties. One of my main characters, Ruth, is half-Chinese and was adopted at birth. She has little clue as to who her parents really are and part of the storyline is her finding out more […]

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