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Val Boje, who died earlier this week, used to say her father, Dr John Bojé, had introduced her to reading at a young age.

Hitching a memory to times gone by By Opinion By Joubert Malherbe I used to love that catchy 70s song by Vanity Fair that went: “A thumb goes up/a car goes by/gotta get back home/to my baby’s side…” In my younger days, heavily influenced by iconoclastic songs and films like Easy Rider, I thought the pinnacle of achievement for me would be to hitch from Pretoria to somewhere like Cape Town. Familial concerns about the safety aspect of such an enterprise ensured that I never did anything as daring in the travel stakes – except, of course, skipping the country in the 80s...