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A rainbow of rest

Have you had it up to here with political antics and crime? Are you searching desperately for proof that the rainbow nation has life in it yet?

Then you need to find your way to Fourways Farmers Market on a Sunday, where you’ll encounter just about every culture and colour, shopping and eating, chatting and catching up, drinking and playing – in perfect harmony. Around tables. In quiet, shaded corners. On bales of hay or wooden benches and logs under a canopy of old pine trees. At the humungous playground for the little ones. At the cocktail bar. Or you could follow the lead of

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