The great drought
1930 · regional · Prince Albert
Drought years across the Karoo compound the Depression - stock losses, abandoned werfs, and the state's 1934 drought relief. In family memory across the platteland "die Groot Droogte" marks the break between the old farming generation and the town-ward drift of the 1930s.
Told in
- mentioned Eighty-one thousand morgen
- evidence The van Rensburgs of the dry north