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Published 2016
One day I want to own a waentjie (a litte van), one that plays that old ice-cream tune. There used to be a man in Groendal who would ride his bicycle, with his cooler box in front of him, selling ice-creams. We would buy Surf Joys off him – those vanilla ice-creams with the orange coating. These were the ones we children could mostly afford. Every now and then you’d get to buy a King Cone, like when your dad got paid and he gave you some money to splash out on expensive ice-cream. My ma wou