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For visitors to South Africa who have spent some time driving through the arid Karoo, a drive around Gariep Dam will reveal more than “big water”: historical sites, eccentric country types, a plush ...

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This year has seen the young, talented and pretty girl from Joburg scale the heights of a global pop odyssey – and she’s only just begun.

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