Growing skills and community roots in three Karoo towns
Through the valuable work of growing food, the programme will create spaces where young people can learn together and begin exploring what they might build in their own communities.
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Growing skills and community roots in three Karoo towns
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Culture & Heritage
The water that built Loxton, and the flood that broke it
Read together, the channels and the surviving cottages offer a fuller understanding of Loxton. It is a town where water made life possible, floodwater damaged homes, and yet the village endured.
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