Humour

Snitches get stitches but, boy, does SA need more whistle-blowers

Most of us know of a situation worth getting a few stitches for

11 October 2020 - 00:01 By ndumiso ngcobo

Even when I was eight years old I knew I'd be a weekly columnist for the biggest newspaper in the land. And what good is a columnist if he doesn't have a bag full of anecdotes? It is for this reason (and only this reason) that I would sometimes do my best Spider-Man impression and scale the Mazibukos' fence to gain access to their yellow cling peach tree. We call this phase of my life “research”...

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