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/ 5 November 2007

The real black man’s new balls: egg-shaped

If there is one certainty in turbulent times in good old Mzansi, then it’s the black male’s fascination with white balls. For such an oft-studied species, one wonders why the social anthropologists don’t include this crucial racial marker in their monographs. Yet it’s been there all along — right up there with inyama (and bringing it home), writes Khadija Bradlow.