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    BACKTRACKING THE KAROO

    Oct 14, 2019 2 minutes
    Justin Fox

    A decade ago, I set off on a 5 000-kilometre journey in a Suzuki Jimny, following the route of Jan Smuts’s raid on the Cape in 1901. The idea was a meandering back-road trip through the Karoo, using the famous book Commando by Deneys Reitz as my guide.

    The founding of Getaway in 1989 was a direct result of a series of backroading articles that appeared

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