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Roughly 300km up the West Coast from Cape Town, Lamberts Bay is a small and not exactly attractive fishing town, but a draw for tourists nonetheless. We found it the perfect spot - quiet, isolated, nothing happening - for a quiet break and some R&R at the end of my last contract in SA, before we returned to Canada.
Taken over a ten-year period, between 2012 and 2022, this series of photographs is from a project on South African country villages and towns. Many of the images are of small Karoo towns, and many of these in turn are of the Dutch Reformed Churches whose steeples are visible for miles around in the vast, semi-desert region that lies, metaphorically and geographically, at South Africa’s centre.
There is something about these Karoo towns, in particular, that has always spoken to me - the stillness of the empty streets in the heat of the day, the white, shuttered cottages, the big skies overhead. And always, at the edge of town, or sprawling out into the arid land, the coloured settlement or African location. In South Africa, as elsewhere, as Faulkner wrote, ‘The past is never dead. It’s not even past.’
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Matjiesfontein, just off the N1 highway as you climb up from the coast to the dry Karoo, is a page out of time, a throwback to Empire, a one-street village centred on the Lord Milner Hotel, a perfect stopover for coffee or lunch as you head inland from Cape Town, and a fine place to pause for a night if you are headed down south.
Founded by a shipwrecked Scot, James Douglas Logan, in the nineteenth century, the village was a place where sufferers from tubeculosis came to experience the benefits of the dry Karoo air, where British troops were quartered during the Ango-Boer War, where Rhodes and Kipling and Churchill’s father, Randolph, along with military brass and other bigwigs, stopped over to enjoy the comforts of what is now the Lord Milner Hotel.
The unique charm of the place is captured by the author Olive Schreiner, who wrote in 1890, ‘It is curious, and to me very attractive this mixture of civilisation & the most wild untamed freedom; the barren mountains & wild Karoo & the railway train.”
After years of decline, the hotel and village were purchased lock-stock-and-barrel by the hotelier and entrepreneur David Rawdon in 1968, and meticulously restored - the bank, post-office, church, railway station, petrol station preserved in amber, the one main street that runs through the village an architectural gem.
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