Karoo Characters — Celebrating more than two decades of Heartland storytelling and road-trip adventure

Boeta Gammie, who will find you for speeding and, if you ask nicely, will haul out his guitar and sing you a song. Photo: Chris Marais

By Chris Marais – 16 Jan 2025

To celebrate Julienne du Toit and Chris Marais’s two decades-plus in the lovely, crazy, challenging Karoo, let’s meet some of the posse of creative, mostly positive, mostly eccentric characters.

It was in the early winter of 2004, with the first frosts already biting the plains of the Eastern Cape interior, that I turned 50 and went slightly mad…

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