Zigzag

OFF THE LEASH

"If you think the grass is greener overseas, you clearly haven’t been to the Transkei."

A lot of South Africans are thinking about emigrating. Not surfers, though. Surfers aren’t like normal people. We don’t care if there’s no water or electricity because we have learnt to survive on beer and mutton curry pies. We don’t even mind if the pies are cold. As long as we can still surf. The government might break the economy, but they can never break the waves.

Regular people don’t feel this way. They also don’t understand why anyone would engage in a sport that came with a perpetual risk of

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