The Economist (US), August 30th, 1997
A drought in South Africa has resulted in numerous Afrikaner farming families leaving the country for Mozambique and Congo-Brazzaville. The exodus from the country comes some 150 years after the Great Trek that brought such families from the Cape of Good Hope into the heart of South Africa.
SOME 150 years after Afrikaners left the Cape to set off on their Great Trek north, their descendants are embarking on another odyssey. This time they are not travelling in canvas-covered ox-wagons. They go by scheduled flight from Johannesburg, their pick-up trucks and motorbikes following by container sh...
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