Legend
noun
1. a traditional story, sometimes popularly regarded as historical but not authenticated.
2. an extremely famous or notorious person, especially in a particular field.
3. somebody who has left their mark in the Karoo Heartland.
Legends of the Karoo
John Kepe, the Bandit of the Boschberg
During the late 1940s and early 1950s a notorious vagabond called John Kepe had the town of Somerset East up in arms with a series of petty...
Robert Hart – Father of Somerset East
The early history of Somerset East and Glen Avon Farm is tied to the history of Robert Hart. When Robert Hart stepped off a boat at the Cape of Good...
Sylvester the Lion – the Karoo escape artist
The Karoo National Park is famous for many wonderful reasons, however in 2015 the most famous reason would be the grand escape of Sylvester the...
John Sweet Distin – he who erected the first stock fences in South Africa
The story of SA’s first stock fence There is a modest white gravestone in the old cemetery of the Eastern Cape town of Middelburg. This is the...
Herbert Hayton Castens – South African only national rugby and cricket captain
Did you know that Pearston in the Karoo Heartland is the birthplace of the only person who was captain of both the South African national rugby as...