From time to time, we at Toverview are tempted to gaze and graze beyond our special comfort zone in the grassy Karoo of Colesberg and surrounds. This time, our attention has been drawn to the Northern Cape town of Campbell, through a special newsletter on the Forgotten Highways WhatsApp group, of which we are enthusiastic members. Indeed, we have long expressed our admiration of the Forgotten Highways initiative and its main initiator, Dr Doreen Atkinson of the Karoo Development Foundation, hoping specifically to to replicate selected highways and byways items from this energetic collective. Campbell is a fascinating little town, about 50 kilometres east of Griquastad, with a long history of Griqua settlement as well as missionary work. In 2007, the exhumed remains of Cornelis Kok II and 34 other Griqua were re-interred alongside the mission church, in a ceremony presided over by the then premier of the Northern Cape, Dipuo Peters. To read more about Campbell’s history, click here. Without further ado, here’s the Campbell House newsletter, which reflects much of what’s positive about the contemporary Karoo. As the judge says – judge for yourself! Download here.
