2020 in review - a year like no other

THE CURTAIN is about to come down on 2020, the most incredible year that any of us have ever lived through. This time last year, none of us could even spell coronavirus, or even pronounce Covid-19.

None of us knew what a lockdown was or that President Cyril Ramphosa could actually close down an entire country for 21 days, that ended up being almost six months before the new normal actually kicked in. It’s been, for want of another word in a year where we have had so many new ones, unprecedented.

It’s brought out the worst in us – and the very best. The year began the other for cheating. Down the road in Kimberley, the tender-bhutis flocked for the January 8 statement. The year was just getting started, as the one auntie said to the others: “Hold my dog.”