Karoo Diary: The Friendly Horse Road
It’s about 160km, give or take a metre or two on either side, from the House of Light & Shadow in Richmond, Northern Cape,...
Karoo Diary: Draadkar Fever (Wire Car Festival!)
If you want to taste excitement in the air, come to Philipstown this week. They’re counting down the days before the Wire Car Festival,...
Karoo Diary – Dancing in the Dust
This is no five-step waltz, no quadrille, and by no means is it a cakewalk. It’s more like a cactus tango or a dusty...
Master Tracker Joins Search for Lion on the Loose in the...
It doesn’t rain much around Beaufort West, but when it does it often comes in the form of fast-rushing water. And so the recent rains in...
Shell Fracks Off. Is this the End of Karoo Fracking…or a...
In November 2014, a Karoo-based German hydrogeologist called Dr Stefan Cramer made a bold prediction that fracking would not happen in the Karoo.
He gave...
KAROO DIARY: Showdown at Pella Cathedral
Some time ago, this nun and I were in deadlock over a daisy. Neither of us was giving any ground on this hot and...
Karoo Diary: The South African Spirit
Last night here in Cradock, a bunch of us gathered at someone’s house and formed a wine club.
Sounds like small potatoes, right?
Maybe, but in...
KAROO DIARY: A Cradock Walkabout
Let’s go for a walk around my home town, here on the edge of the Karoo Heartland, where the Great Fish River flows really...
KAROO DIARY: Graaff-Reinet’s Drostdy Hotel Comes Alive!
The Drostdy has always been one of the select few grand old hotels of the Karoo.
As the prime accommodation in Graaff-Reinet, it began its...
KAROO DIARY: Six Ways to Love Us
What? Six? Sheesh, I could give you six dozen reasons to climb in a car and come and kuier with us here in the...
