The Forgotten Highway

by Rowan Johnson
Winding through a desolate “hinterland” of South Africa known as the Karoo and into the sandy dunes and grasslands of the Kalahari Desert, there is an ancient trail that is known to some as The Forgotten Highway. Stories of this hinterland from the 1800s, set between the lush mountains of the Cape and the vast Orange River, would surely make for some epic historical movies. This place is where some of the earliest Voortrekkers (original Afrikaner settlers of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State who migrated from the Cape Colony in the 1830s) often found themselves trying to...