🇿🇦 South Africa 12h ago · Jim Freeman

A date in the desert

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A date in the desert
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If there had to be a South African thesaurus and you were looking for a one-word synonym for the concept “back of beyond”, that word would probably be Pofadder.



Actually, you could pick just about any place name in that part of the Northern Cape known as Bushmanland. It is a region so remote and geographically inhospitable it was chosen in decades gone by as a nuclear waste disposal site.



Yet not far away is the lush “Green Kalahari”, fed by the Orange River. The ma

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