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The rain is pouring from a grey white sky all the way from the airport to the guesthouse. Ze didn’t realise that Olivedale is 35 kms from the city centre. When asking hir hostess Sherry-Lynne how to get to downtown Johannesburg without a car, she looks at hir with wide incredulous eyes and answers: “Don’t go to downtown Johannesburg!”
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Hemer, O. (2020). Melville Medley. In: Contaminations and Ethnographic Fictions. Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34925-7_7
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