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    ON THE cutting edge

    May 28, 2018 4 minutes
    TEXT BRIONY CHISHOLM
    PHOTOS
    SARINA ENGELBRECHT

    The view to the east takes your breath away. Vast plains, bluegrey mountains, a tranquil silence, Cradock in the distance. This is the outlook from Kareelaagte, a sheep farm on the dirt road between Nieu-Bethesda and the N9. The nearest “big” town is Graaff-Reinet, just less than 60km away in the opposite direction.

    It is shearing season on Kareelaagte.

    It’s 30?C and voluminous clouds rumble to announce an approaching thunderstorm. Occasional bursts of sunlight emerge and a gorgeous glow hovers over the plains. Karoo light defies definition: what some dismiss as bland semidesert transforms into a kaleidoscope of yellow and gold,

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