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Beyond the Paardeberg: Meet the winemakers shaking things up in Swartland's rugged north
Дата публикации: 21-09-2026 06:05:00
Northern Swartland is stirring...
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View of the Northern Swartland from Bandits Kloof
(Image credit: Malu Lambert)
Green wheat fields peel back on either side of the N7, that endless road that goes all the way to Namibia. Fog swishes up and down like a theatre intern’s first time at the ropes.
Trucks thunder past. Soon the Desert Rose Farm Stall looms ahead, all punk Afrikanerism: its gaudy glory the symbolic gateway to the northern Swartland.
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