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THE POWER OF YOUR NAME

NAMES are important. It’s a lesson I learnt when I was 7 years old and my mother found out I went by another name in school.

It was a Friday afternoon and my mother had come to fetch me. She bumped into my classmate, Cyrilia, and asked her if she had seen Buhle. To my mother’s surprise, Cyrilia didn’t know a Buhle. Confused, my mother walked around the school looking for

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