Roots of the Karoo house
The Karoo house endures because it belongs so completely to its environment.
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Lunch under a tree
Older entertaining traditions offer plenty to work with: bread passed around the table, a hearty main and pudding brought out just when everyone thinks they’ve finished.
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.
Who built the Great Karoo’s mysterious corbelled houses?
The most valuable work may be to keep studying the buildings themselves. They can tell us a great deal about how people adapted to the Karoo, even as the identity of the first builder goes unknown.