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2020 – a year unlike any other

THE CURTAIN is about to come down on 2020, the most incredible year that any of us have ever lived through.

This time last year, none of us could even spell coronavirus, or even pronounce Covid-19.

None of us knew what a lockdown was or that President Cyril Rampahosa could actually close down an entire country for 21 days that ended up being almost six months before the new normal actually kicked in.

It’s been, for want of another word in a

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