Humour

Parenting my parents, the 70-something sparring twins

My mother and my late father were inseparable, but boy did they love to bicker

18 April 2021 - 00:02 By and ndumiso ngcobo

My father passed away two weeks into April last year. This was two weeks after President Cyril Ramaphosa had imposed a nationwide lockdown in response to the Covid-19 epidemic. Flights were grounded, so the missus and I had to brave the six-hour drive to the Valley of a Thousand Hills for the burial...

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