We join a convoy of Ford bakkies for an off-road adventure and get to roll though beautiful parts of the country few people get to see
There would be farm gates and river crossings and donkey carts. There would be lonely farms and windpumps, fast gravel R-roads and farm tracks. And dust, lots and lots of dust. Who wouldn't want a piece of that?The dirt begins right there at Pecan Manor, next to the dam. OK, it's a private farm road and, look, there's the farmer, standing by his open gate, watching our convoy rattle past with a bemused look on his face.
Bertus Prinsloo, medic, mechanic and Eater of Dust, is the sweeper, driving alone. It's his job to close all the gates so I dub him Liewe Heksie on the radio. No-one laughs. There are brief interludes of tar before the convoy lurches off into the dust once more. There is no one dirt road to Cape Town. It's complicated.
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