What I quickly discovered is that our so-called new South Africa has as much material for a story-teller as the old one. The landscape hasn't really changed. Who is in power now is different to who was in power then, but the squatter camps grow like cancer, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer.
Actually, I began to think that maybe there is a god, after all. Or maybe it's a different one. The old one got fired.
If I say I've got two versions of Word - that old one from 1982 that's perfect, with zero defects; or the new one that's got all this cool new stuff, but there might be a few bugs in it - people always want the new one. But I wouldn't want them to operate a plane I was on with software that happened to be the latest greatest release!
You can call me an older woman - I don't mind that at all - just don't call me an old one, because I'm not.
Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.
When a new book is published, read an old one.
Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.
Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.
Next to coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.
I have the bigger iPad, but the Mini is the best. It just seems perfect. The old one seems so big and heavy. I like simple and clean.