Tag: De Aar

  • September 22, 2025
    Legends of the old Karoo loco drivers and their firemen.
  • yeomenry

    August 22, 2017
    The superb back story of a Karoo field hospital set up during the Anglo-Boer (South African) War - Yeomen of…
  • November 20, 2013
    Every year in November, tens of thousands of compact raptors fly from breeding grounds in Russia and Kazakhstan to small…
  • Solar energy Karoo

    February 24, 2016
    South Africa’s new era of solar energy started with a stranger knocking on a Karoo farmhouse door in the early…
  • de aar

    June 17, 2013
    De Aar once lay at the crossroads of travel in South Africa and held the second biggest railway junction in…
  • Hanover

    June 4, 2013
    On a summer’s night late in the year, you might find yourself in Hanover with the skies turning black with…
  • August 28, 2013
    Steam trains over the Karoo, and memories of De Aar. By Jenny Hobbs.