The poetry of place names
These names stitch the Karoo’s past to its present and bind heritage to its geography.
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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.
De Rust plants its comeback with support from Leon Kluge
De Rust still needs its road and it will take time to erase the losses caused by months of isolation. But the malvas represent a new reason to come to De Rust long after the road is open.