The South African Outlook2025-04-022025-04-021959-01-01http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11837/2786As Christmas and the New Year approach there's plenty of evidence of family and communal goodwill. Greetings are sorted into letter boxes already crammed or are being home and abroad are recalled. We attend church, we sing carols, we exchange gifts, we lose the sense of strain that so often stultifies our relationship with others.