Die Hel goes up in flames
Fire ruins farm of last family in famously isolated settlement
08 December 2019 - 00:00
The taxman couldn’t get them. Nor the rinderpest of 1897. But a wildfire in the Gamkaskloof has all but wiped out the livelihood of the last remaining household in Die Hel, the settlement in the Western Cape’s Swartberg that once defied the modern world...
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