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Barrydale rallies behind local young man battling cancer
Although Testicular Cancer Awareness Month officially falls in April, Barrydale has decided the calendar can wait. On June 19 and 20, the town will host a wide-ranging awareness and fundraising weekend centred around Jason’s ongoing fight against cancer.
The rebirth of local manufacturing and handmade goods
South Africans increasingly want products that feel human again. They want farm-baked bread and furniture built by local hands and clothing designed and stitched by the town seamstress.
The strange mixture of conservatism and creativity in the Karoo
The Karoo is still one of South Africa’s most fascinating contradictions. Deeply conservative in many ways, it has also become a powerful centre for creativity, attracting artists, writers and dreamers drawn to its isolation and immense landscapes.
How floodwater transforms a “dead” Karoo landscape overnight
This surprising weather impact is part of what gives the Karoo its strange emotional power as a place of ancient sleep.
Leaving the Karoo and coming back again
The leaving is necessary sometimes. One must remember that the world is large and strange and crowded with different lives, but then one must return to something that predates urgency, that predates human life itself.
Floodwaters leave the Klein Karoo bruised as recovery efforts continue
Disaster management officials described the flooding as among the worst the region has experienced in roughly 30 years.