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NOW LET’S GO Surf!

By 1975 the liberation struggle and subsequent civil war had put a hard stop to the early journeys of intrepid South African adventurers, holidaymakers and pleasure seekers. But as soon as peace returned, so did they… with friends. And by then, many more of them were surfers.

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