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A Bump in the Road: A South African Holiday Story | SA News

Venetia Reynolds has had a love for South Africa all her life, despite growing up in the United Kingdom; her South African holiday turned into a wonderful story.

South Africa (15 July 2025) – To begin and understand this story, I, Venetia Reynolds, must first share some context about myself and why I was taking this trip in the first place.

I am British. I grew up here in the UK and although both my parents are as English as could be, my father grew up in the 1970s and 80s in Johannesburg. He has a deep love, not just for South Africa, but for Africa as a whole. Although words like ‘braai’ and ‘lekker’ may seem alien to most Brits, growing up in our household, they were as common as…

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