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Between Joburg & A Hard Place
House and Leisure
|December 2018
AUTHOR AND COLUMNIST HAJI MOHAMED DAWJEE ESCAPES CAPE TOWN FOR THE QUIET OF HOLIDAY-TIME JOHANNESBURG
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December holidays are the longed-for pauses in what your Twitter-feed contributors will undoubtedly call the worst year of their lives – even though in January everyone announces that in the next 365 days they will #slay. First it was #2016mustfall. Then #2017mustfall. And now we’re on the cusp of the same complaint about 2018.
Then there’s that other beckoning which starts about now: #KeDezembaBoss. In reality, though, there’s nothing too ‘boss’ about Decembers. They’re just a knot of unsettling feelings that result in some of the worst decisions ever – things we would never do on any other day, given the choice. It’s an insecure time of year, one that calls for doing anything to get by. For me, that anything is catching the earliest flight to the City of Gold. Why? Because it’s in that 12th month of the year when the most beautiful part of the country, the Cape Town I call home, turns into a frightful hell, impoverished of the joy it showers on its inhabitants at any other time of the year.
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