A farm not far from town
Is Bloemfontein a city or a town? Nobody quite agrees on this issue, it seems. Here in the Platteland office we’ve always labelled it as concrete jungle – it is, after all, home to the Supreme Court of Appeal – but we’ve also come to realise that the Free State’s main hub can be just as sleepy as the Mother City. The majority of Bloem residents are, however, better drivers than the average Capetonian, and they keep a certain eccentric smalltown charm alive: they greet strangers on the street; they know their Dominee and his wife and all their little angels by name, by nickname too; and some tend vegetables in the back garden and
