New SA is a lot like UK in the 1970s

I was in Kloof Street the other day, buying candles. Natch. There is an odd sense of familiarity I get when I see Price's candles on the shelves in South Africa. I grew up close to the original factory on the banks of the Thames in London and we all used to bundle into the sky-blue Cortina and make a day of it-buying candles in the factory outlet shop.