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Meet the people

Debbie Thixton

Retailer and museum manager

Debbie prints and sells a large variety of T-shirts for men and women. Our favourites are the Val and the Platteland designs.

Debbie was living in Nieu-Bethesda in the Eastern Cape when she first heard about Val. She says she was not very happy in the Owl House town, because it is far away from everything, the local market is tiny, and she found the winters much too cold.

“Then I came

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