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THAT SINKING FEELING

‘The only way to deal with something so frustrating is to see the light side’

DON’T take anything for granted.

That’s the message a man from Douglasdale in Fourways, Gauteng, is taking away from an ongoing crisis that recently made him take the plunge – straight into a sinkhole filled with freezing water.

The man wants to be known only as Nicholas, although to the people in his area he’s more like a superhero – even if in his case undies, and undies alone,

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