South Africa: The Past Is A Foreign Country And No Amount Of Magic Can Restore What Is Lost

?Tokoloshe is a myth,? said Sizwe. ?Has anyone ever seen a tokoloshe?? ?Yes,? said Airs. ?I have.? I was sitting in a beachfront bar in a small town on the Eastern Cape of South Africa with half-a-dozen Xhosa guys. Just a few days ago. The sound of the surf outside. Airs had taken me there to discuss the art of magic with some of his buddies, to try to nail down the difference between the sangoma and the ixwhele, distinct varieties of ?witch doctor?. Oddly enough, they mainly wanted to talk about Brexit.


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