The reality of murder

e had been permanent residents of Koringberg for three years when the first issue of Platteland came out in the summer of 2013. It was eight years earlier, in the winter of 2005, that we discovered this village in the Swartland. Let’s just call it “love at first sight”, even though we’ve had to hear how this sad little place has no reason to exist. (In the Eighties the village really did almost become deserted. It was so bad that Die Burger featured it on its front page: The NG Church – in an attempt to rescue the place – advertised plots for sale at R10. Yes, ten rand – on condition that you built a house