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The origin of the term ‘Proudly South African’

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Dear MyPE

Luyanda Marlon Kama
Luyanda Marlon Kama

Yours truly remembers vividly being told 20 years ago – on an early morning in the bus on our way to school – by my excited and proud schoolmates at Woolhope Secondary School that they had seen my article in True Love magazine.

More pupils told their “very serious” Deputy Head Boy about that Inspirational Letter he wrote at school afterwards.

In a nutshell, the Proudly South African term was INSPIRED by my APRIL 1996 True Love magazine’s (with Melanie Son-Bala on the front cover) Letter-Of-The-Month WINNING ARTICLE titled; “Be Proud South Africa!”

Expectedly, the Proudly South African Foundation and the status-conscious Doubting Thomases refuted this “coincidental claim”. Eeeeeiiisshhhh

Regards

Luyanda Marlon Kama
Kwa-Dwesi, Port Elizabeth

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