

Marico Matters: The Source
'Standing in the evening sunlight gazing across piles of junk Pop sighed loudly and with such content that the sound seemed to travel...


Marico Matters: AFTER
" Here Rain is the contradiction in terms. Rain is everlastingly the recurring dream anew - of the never-happened before: Rain is always...


Marico Matters: D for Drought
"Celebrating in writing the occurrence of rain in the Marico ultimately results in a cumulative body of words and lines. From which one...


Marico Matters: Blue Square in the Marico
"Greenies: People who are concerned about environmental issues. Many of them feel guilty about washing as drainage pollutes the streams....


Marico Matters: Flying Saucers
" I believe in it because it is impossible". Salmon Fishing in the Yemen - Paul Torday Three flying saucers were seen above Groot Marico...


Marico Matters: The Rain Tree
" To go back to tradition is the first step forward" African proverb This ancient tree in Koffiekraal was already a mature tree in the...


Marico Matters: River of Glee
" A river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving, living part of the very earth itself'. Laura Gilpin As temperatures reach 45 degrees...


Marico Matters: The Radiant Rhizome
" Look what I bought in Groot Marico!" shrieked Ouma Koekie Venter, prolific maker of crisp koeksisters, to her friend Jazz Bayley,...