Oasis of the Free State
I remember sitting with my fiancée a few years ago on the south-eastern arm of the Gariep Dam. From a gazebo high above the shore, we watched the sun set, and talked of buying a cheap house there with a bilge-keeler bobbing on its mooring in a bay nearby.
These were among the thoughts I had as I walked around the immaculate park-like grounds of the Gariep Forever resort, with a fleet of yachts across the mudflats in