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Anita Lalor

Owner of Cape Robin Guesthouse

Anita and her husband, Brendan, have moved a total of 26 times since 1976–from Upington to George to Colesberg to Paarl to Alberton to Kimberley to Clanwilliam to Ladismith, from where they moved to Leipoldtville seven years ago. This, she says, is a place she doesn’t want to leave. She does, however, miss her son, Erin, who lives in Switzerland–especially since her daughter, Frances, to whom she donated a kidney when Frances was in Standard 9, passed away three years ago at the age of 33. “She fell ill after they

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