‘Oh, oh, oh,
matchbox full of diamonds
pocket full of rain
I'm as happy as a hotel in the springtime
when the flowers bloom again’
David Kramer’s song about the
Richtersveld starts on the road to Lekkersing: “O ja, vanaand stap ek alleen op
die pad na lekka sing.”
It came bubbling into my brain the
night we were briefed that we would be on the road to Lekkersing the next
morning, deep in the Richtersveld, deep in diamond country, and it all seemed
to make a new kind of sense. We w...
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