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Ndumiso Ngcobo Reveals the Five Hairiest Lies Told to Children

Is It Coz I'm Black?His latest column in the Sunday Times:Some of My Best Friends are White

I am a child of the ’70s and ’80s. It was a kinder, gentler time.

It was the era of The Beatles, “make love, not war” and all things pacifist and pure. I was brought up on good, strong values such as respect, prayer and generosity. But most of all, I was brought up on a steady staple diet of filthy, rotten lies. Allow me to expatiate.

When I was growing up I had a circle of grown-ups who formed a laager around me that would have made Piet Retief proud. They consisted of my folks, my aunts, uncles, catechism teachers, school teachers, Boy Scout instructors and an assortment of Catholic priests who came and went in and out of my life.

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Is it Cos I’m Black?

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Some of My Best Friends are White

 

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