Once upon a time , on a hot, dry, windy day, in April 1780, literally in the middle of nowhere, a Dane claimed a spot of land in what is one of the harshest areas on earth to farm. He recorded the event by carving the story on a huge boulder which is now in… Continue reading 1780 – a Dane visits the Karoo, South Africa.
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Pacaltsdorp in the Western Cape
Once upon a time, near George, in the Western Cape, South Africa, there was an area called Hoogekraal, whose leader was the Khoikhoi, Kaptein Dikkop.
The Bridges at Kei Bridge
The second bridge which had served as the rail bridge over the Vaal River at Fourteen Streams, near Warrenton in the Northern Cape, was dismantled and erected over the Kei River. This historic bridge at Fourteen Streams saw skirmishes during the Anglo Boer War and for a while, it became a Boer stronghold, when the English stationed there, withdrew to Kimberly.
The Sao Joao Tragedy
This was the undoing of Dona Leonor. Having survived a walk of over a thousand kilometres through African bush and jungle, hunger, and all sorts of hardships that a noble woman had never dreamed of in her worst nightmares of ever enduring, her nakedness was the last straw. She buried herself in the sand, refused to move, and she and her children died of starvation. Her husband, who seemingly had gone mad from his wife’s actions, disappeared into the wilds and was never seen again.
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