Gold turns to silver

DIRTOPIA

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October 4th 2007
DIRTOPIA It’s an old pig farm she tells us. There are a dozen outbuildings made of orange brick. Tin roofed long ones with stalls inside to separate the little oinkeys, and interconnected pens out in the bright sun where the piggys were once dosed and inoculated and (squeal) made into bacon. But that is in the past. What is happening now to this old pig farm is a far more ... read more

Africa » South Africa » Western Cape » Stellenbosch

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After the British seized the Cape of Good Hope area in 1806, many of the Dutch settlers (the Boers) trekked north to found their own republics. The discovery of diamonds (1867) and gold (1886) spurred wealth and immigration and intensified the subjug... ... read more