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    Rooiberg The ‘Lazarus’ of Limpopo

    May 28, 2018 4 minutes
    TEXT JOHAN VAN ZYL
    PHOTOS
    PETER VAN NOORD

    What does a weekend – a really good weekend – smell like? At Rooiberg – situated either 55km (via the R510) or 85km (via the R516 and R511) from Thabazimbi, or about 82km from Bela-Bela via the R516 – Saturday mornings smell like freshly flipped pancakes sprinkled with a scandalous amount of cinnamon sugar.

    And no, your nose isn’t playing tricks on you: outside the entrance of the Rooiberg One Stop, five energetic golden oldies are working hard behind the gas flames. It’s very clearly a labour of love for this team, all residents of Avondsrus security village, who have been doing this for donkey’s years. Cor Minnaar, originally

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