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...
Happy New Year!
Posted on Wed December 30, 2015.
Since 1884, Matjiesfontein has welcomed visitors from all over the globe—and including the likes of Cecil John Rhodes, Rudyard Kipling, Olive Schreiner, among many others.
To ring in the New Year we’ve gathered some inspirational quotes from these luminaries, so let’s raise our glasses…
Cecil John Rhodes
I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right.
Rudyard Kipling
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
Olive Schreiner
The secret of success is concentration ... Taste everything a little, look at everything a little; but live for one thing.
Happy New Year friends of Matjiesfontein, we wish a prosperous and fulfilling 2016!
Further Reading
Under the Karoo Stars: A Journey with the Shepherds Behind Our Lamb
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Olive Schreiner
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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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