"Now that we have a democracy and you can go back and the airport air is not laden with evil any more, you can actually breathe oxygen when you land in Johannesburg."

Democracy, Evil, Land, Now

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"Now that we have a democracy and you can go back and the airport air is not laden with evil any more, you can actually breathe oxygen when you land in Johannesburg."

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"And I think that that emphasis on keeping a family together, alike, I think it's important."

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