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  She said her parents are also fighting less and after what happened they are showing her a lot more attention. I hope things work out for them, but if they don’t at least she now has someone to talk to instead of trying to outrun her problems.

  I got a few messages from Freddy, he’s super paranoid now and insists the government has hacked his computer and are listening to his calls. I humour him and keep telling him to be ready for the next near apocalypse.

  ‘I know you’re teasing me, but ALWAYS stay prepared,’ he wrote back with a bunch of zombie emojis this whole adventure inspired him to create.

  In a way Freddy is right - I lie in my bed at night and think about what happened. Sometimes it feels like a dream or some sort of movie that I watched. But the truth is we came very close to being locked down forever – and the general public will never know.

  It’s scary how volatile all these diseases have become and been able to evolve to fight against our vaccines. Hopefully we learn a lesson from this outbreak and never come this close again to a real apocalypse.

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  Other books by Lee Herrmann and available from SAZA:

  It’s been two years since a mysterious outbreak has ravaged the country, turning most of the rainbow nation into mindless, flesh-eating zombies. Sixteen-year-old Kon, along with his family, must journey across the country to Robben Island, a rumoured safe haven. Journal of a South African Zombie Apocalypse is a coming of age story in a very different South Africa and chronicles one family’s fight for survival against the walking dead.

  We’re not the top of the food chain anymore...

  When KB is sent to the Mpumalanga bush as punishment, she never imagined it would turn out to be a lesson in survival. Strange reports are surfacing from the cities and when a helicopter falls from sky, it brings a deadly message: the Zombie Apocalypse is here. As KB, together with seasoned ranger Dzunani and spoilt city-boy Bryan, battle flesh-eating zombies, but are stalked by a new threat...

  Ding-Dong. There’s a horde of flesh-craving zombies at your front door. What do you do?

  Your survival will depend on what you know. The South African Zombie Apocalypse Survival Guide gives practical advice for surviving the zombie apocalypse, with a local flavour that South Africans will enjoy.

  You’re alive. Then you’re dead. Then alive again...?

  Welcome to Team Z.

  Being a zombie in modern-day South Africa comes with its own set of problems. How do you act at a brahai? How do you tell your family? What do you eat at the bioscope? Zombie ZA is your guide to coping with being undead in SA.

  For more information visit www.saza.co.za

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