In the Kalahari, a river is not a stream of water but a vestige of a river course left from prehistoric times. No one knows what this land looked like back then, but the deep folds of a Kalahari river bed can mean only one thing: it has not always been this dry and red.
For five years, my family farmed between two of the biggest rivers in the Kalahari: the Kuruman River formed the southern boundary of the land we rented, and
