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Being a landlord would be a much easier proposition if it wasn't for the renters!...
Americans tend to think of corrugated tin roofs as being the kind thing that you find on tumble-down shacks in rural poverty pockets. South Africans, on the other hand, find corrugated tin to be perfectly acceptable for dwellings of any calibre......
For some people, life is a struggle from the moment they are born…and it remains a struggle until the day they die. The definition of struggle is subjective, of course, dependent on the lowest common denominator for survival in the society in question....
If, when you think of South Africa, you think of skin-draped, nearly-naked black people living in rude huts who have to hunt for their food in deep, dark lion-infested jungles, you need to give those Tarzan and George of the Jungle DVDs a rest.