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Thembalami and MODA newsletter: November 2025
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Thornhill residents welcome the festive season
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The first of the three teddy bears that Rand Aid’s Elphin Lodge retirement village recently donated to Tails and Whiskers,…
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Margaret now a nonagenarian
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