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Not long after I was kicked out of the apartheid army on the grounds of sanity, I wrote a play called National Madness.
And a friend, Michael Rudolf, wrote this:

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Track no 3.

National Madness

Britain is lost in Trumpland

The old world is dying and the new word struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.

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“I call South Africa heaven because that’s what it is after this.”

My father writing from a waterlogged trench in France on the 18th January, 1916

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AFTER 38 YEARS we packed a life and our ancestors and two dogs and a cat and travelled south to a stone house on a blue bay.

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