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HIDDEN CHARMS

From the road, Mary Jane Darroll’s house looks much like any other of its era. A neat 1940s bungalow, it’s part of a Johannesburg suburb that, just a century ago, was a series of farms.

It’s only when you walk through the door and out to the patio on the opposite side that something astonishing appears. We’re talking a towering,

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