MIX MASALA

The news that lands via email from Temu

Usually around the first or second week of December, an invisible hand flicks off the news switch in the world and then absolutely nothing more happens. People working at newspapers have to do clever tricks to fill the pages with stories, so that it's not just advertisements. This is when the news becomes a little bit silly, as it is here with us.

06 December 2024
Free Speech
1 min to read
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Ali van Wyk

Content editor

The Moot, in Pretoria (for those who don't know), is a lovely place to live. Gritty, soulful, subtropical, and so on. However, if you live there, just make sure you're not sitting early in December in your front yard on your annual plasticity, mental-health, doctor-prescribed shrooms trip when the small business community's Christmas parade passes by. You might not survive it.