At The Lord Milner Hotel in Matjiesfontein, our team recently embarked on a 125 km transhumance trek with a local Karoo sheep farming family, gaining deep insight into the heritage behind our beloved Karoo lamb. This time-honoured journey through the rugged landscape, marked by resilience, tradition, and connection to the land, revealed the true soul of the Karoo and the people who sustain it. Now, every dish of Karoo lamb we serve...
Game on at Matjiesfontein
Posted on Fri March 24, 2017.
Over a recent weekend cricket returned to Matjiesfontein when a team of Englishmen captained by one of our own Tony Romer-Lee, took on a team of eager South Africans.
Over a recent weekend cricket returned to Matjiesfontein when a team of Englishmen captained by one of our own Tony Romer-Lee, took on a team of eager South Africans.
"Playing on the hallowed wicket made famous during the days of James Logan [the original ‘Laird of Matjiesfontein’], said Dr Dean Allen, author of 'Empire, War & Cricket in South Africa'.
"The players re-enacted the good sportsmanship and fair play so evident during those heady late-Victorian days in the Karoo. The cricket ground at Matjiesfontein dates back to 1894 when James Logan had a first-class pitch built so that the stars of world cricket could play at this most unlikely of venues."
An era brought to life in the book Empire, War and Cricket in South Africa by Dean Allen, read how successive England teams played at Matjiesfontein during the 1890s and how James Logan gained a reputation for being South Africa’s greatest benefactor of international cricket.
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Olive Schreiner (1855–1920) is remembered as one of South Africa’s most influential literary figures and a pioneering feminist. Her works and activism during the late 19th and early 20th centuries left a lasting impact on literature, politics, and social reform in her home country and beyond.
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