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Thandi
Thandi As a form of "thanda" (to love), Thandi is a character who is constitutively relational — her name is love itself. In fiction characters named Thandi are typically warm, emotionally available, and central to the affective life of their social worlds. Post-apartheid South African fiction has used the name for complex female characters whose love is both their greatest strength and the thing most easily exploited.
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