Strange things happen in the Karoo

By Roxanne Reid
If you’re ever in the Karoo, deep in the heart of South Africa, make time to chat with random people you meet. Guesthouse owners, restaurant staff, shopkeepers, even people you bump into on the street. You’ll be captivated by their stories of what strange things happen in the Karoo.

Like the chap who has thousands of hectares of farmland but says he doesn’t have the money to pay the R23.00 increase in his life insurance; he wants to cash it in instead. Or the people who w...