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Carol’s Column: A Johannesburg household, week by week
An archive of Carol Lazar’s newspaper columns about family life in Johannesburg and later Cape Town, published from 1979 to 2001.
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- The household cast includes Liquorice the Labrador, Henry the Hog, and Daisy, a Land-Rover named like a family member.
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Navigation separates the material into archive, quotes, people, places, and a glossary, with a guestbook listed alongside them. The homepage names the Sunday Express and The Sunday Star and describes a household cast that includes four children, multiple dogs, three goldfish, and a Land-Rover called Daisy. It says the surviving columns are being transcribed week by week; the extracted page does not establish how much of the archive is currently available.
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