You might need a magnifying glass if you want to find Kameel on a map. It’s not a place mentioned in casual conversation; in fact, chances of hearing someone talking about their visit to Kameel are close to zero.
Kameel is a tiny hamlet in North West, so small that Delareyville and Stella, the two towns on either side of it, appear positively bustling. And Vryburg is a metropolis by comparison.
It’s a matter of debate whether Kameel actually has streets. A tarred stretch of roadway branches off from the R377 and weaves past Kameel Rust and Vrede B&B and Camping, and 21 silos. Just past Wilrick Supermarket it makes a snappy turn to the left and runs past another 28 silos, five houses and the primary school. Then the tarmac – and everything else that qualifies Kameel as a human settlement – ends at the NWK co-op.
Early in the morning, the voices of
