Five festive gift ideas that keep on giving
With SA’s petrol price, Father Christmas probably can’t afford to be as generous with gifts as he would have liked to be.
Erene Roux (Née Oberholzer) is an Amsterdam-based journalist, Journalism and Media Studies lecturer, communications manager and content writer from Johannesburg, South Africa. Her work has appeared in The South African, The Australian, Beeld, Netwerk24, Perdeby and more. Erene has a keen interest in the theoretical side of journalism, history and digital media. She writes about everything from celebrities, sport, entertainment, technology, health and fitness and knows everything about the British royal family. She has many opinions on high and low culture - and considers herself somewhat of a general knowledge 'whizz'.
With SA’s petrol price, Father Christmas probably can’t afford to be as generous with gifts as he would have liked to be.
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