DISCOVER
It’s time to discover your best life in the country By Rene Vosloo, author at BrightRock’s Change Exchange
Moving from Johannesburg back to the small town of Barkly East has made me appreciate the real magic of living in the southern Drakensberg – the people. Like many families in the Karoo and elsewhere in the Platteland, my heritage is rooted in the farming community. My parents spent their school holidays with their cousins on farms, setting the tone for our own childhood experiences. We visited neighbours for tea and sandwiches, often extending our stay for lunch and into the late afternoon. 32 | June 2021
As children we loved meeting friends and inventing games that kept us amused for hours, while the adults
discussed the wool and meat prices, the midday news, the weather, remedies for treating the prevailing pests, and the latest happenings in the district. When we matured into teenagers, we put on our party frocks to dance the night away in a farm-shed far from home, with our parents in attendance. Then as we pursued our careers, got married or travelled abroad, we left the district. The www.rovesa.co.za
