Word: karoo
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...skies as a golden sun plays on the forest canopy before dipping over the blue peak. The atmosphere is appropriately elysian. Capetonians, known for savoring a slow pace of life, feast on picnics of prawn salad and cold Karoo lamb, washed down with that year's sauvignon blanc from Constantia's famous vineyards, a 10-minute drive away...
...government is cooperating with the private sector to develop ventures that will maintain South Africa's position as a world leader in wildlife and environmental conservation. For dedicated and affluent wild-animal watchers, the $40 million Cape Wildlife Reserve, with more than 60,000 acres of the Klein Karoo, east of Cape Town, will open in January 2000. The luxury game reserve, which will include executive lodges, a resort and a conference center, is reintroducing Africa's popular Big Five--elephants, buffalo, rhinos, lions and leopards--from overstocked game parks elsewhere in the country to the Western Cape, where they...
...ends of flowered furniture. As soon as Janine Poreba and Jennifer Sun walk onstage and begin to speak, however, it is their engrossing performances which overflow the room. Athol Fugard's brilliant script is given life by an extremely talented cast, who bring a piece of South Africa's karoo home to Harvard...
...hospital, where Anna dies. Michael K is stripped of his money; all he has left is a cardboard box filled with his mother's ashes. Undeterred, he moves on to the place of his dreams, the abandoned farm on the arid South African tablelands of the Karoo, where his mother was born. There he scatters Anna's ashes, and there too he plants a handful of pumpkin and melon seeds. On the deserted land the fruits flourish, round and warm as children. Michael K changes. He feels bound to the land, even as he anticipates the inevitable stigmata...
...whites, the physical wounds were light-amounting to some 30 injured policemen. Out in the wine-growing flatlands of Cape province or in the sheep-raising Karoo plateau, where the small villages are dominated by steeples of the Dutch Reformed Church, the Nationalist farmers had scarcely noticed anything wrong. At one vineyard, an Afrikaner shrugged: "Maybe the city people have trouble with their natives, but ours are satisfied. We treat them well, give them six tots of wine a day. and keep them peaceful. What have we to worry about?" Another saw Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's escape from...