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[translation]
SHE SAYS: "So it's Saturday and we haven't been raptured"
HE SAYS: "The only thing that's been raptured is the Springboks' World Cup".
Fred Mouton
'Die Burger' has had just three full time daily cartoonists since it was founded in 1915 under the editorship of DF Malan; all three of them giants of South African…>

End of the World (Cup)
ANOTHER RAPTURE, another failure to launch. FRED MOUTON notes that this, the second date this year to have been set aside for a rapture, has come and gone without any fanfare or spontaneous upliftment of souls. But our World Cup hopes have disappeared, notes his protagonist. For many, that would mount to the End of the World, suggests FRED.
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