People of the Karoo

People of the Karoo refers to notable individuals who come (or came) from, or whose lives have included substantial engagement with, the area known as the Karoo. The Karoo is a widespread physiographic province in the western interior of South Africa, straddling much of the Northern Cape, southern Free State, Eastern Cape interior and parts of the Western Cape Provinces.

Main article: Karoo

As a distinctive, generally arid region, it has given rise to a characteristic architecture, cuisine, literature and other cultural elements, with predominantly sheep farming practices, and lifestyles that included a persistence of hunting and gathering by |xam and other San (Bushman) groups into the later nineteenth century. Karoo, as place, is often acknowledged as an influential aspect in the lives or backgrounds of those people who come from or live in the region - exemplified by Guy Butler's autobiographical Karoo Morning.

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  • |A!kunta - |xam narrator in the creation of the Bleek and Lloyd archive
  • |Han≠kasso - |xam narrator in the creation of the Bleek and Lloyd archive
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  • !Kweiten ta ken - |xam narrator in the creation of the Bleek and Lloyd archive

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  • Athol Fugard - playwright, novelist, actor, and director (Middelburg)

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  • Maximillian Jackson - magistrate (Kenhardt)

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YuGii Yo is an afrikaans rap artist, poet and activist born in the 20th century in a small town 80 kilometres outside of Beaufort West.

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