Nature crept back, like the veld grass, to restate her original claim.
One of those uncontrollable veld fires, said the police.All that time he fought to hold on.
The Portuguese legacy adds what I imagine to be a similar sunny, against-the-odds, Latin disposition.I'm here because Maputo is apparently a favoured weekend-break destination from South Africa, with many making the trek from the veld to go diving, and to devour copious prawns, washed down with icy lager.
Or a puffback from the South African veld, with its loose grey feathers and eyes of flint.Born in a small mining town east of Johannesburg after the Boer war, Nadine Gordimer was a child of empire.
They stole the irrigation pumps and tractors he'd used to turn his 3,000 acres of veld into mango and citrus groves so lush that he had become the leading grower in Zimbabwe, selling his fruit to Marks & Spencer in England.
Her body was found in the veld with condoms, bottles and sticks around it; the whole community was shocked.
How quickly the heat leaves the day on the veld.
The golden arches have not yet marched out of South Africa's three big cities and across the veld.
But that with which you work, it is perhaps wise to know, and if nothing else, my employer's august name tends to open doors that might otherwise stay shut.Although the (very) high veld leaves me gasping for breath, (Johannesburg and London's time zones are close enough; their altitudes differ tremendously), I'm an eager arrival.
Modern study of the veld has centred on its economic, ecological, and archaeological assets.
To most South African farmers today the "veld" refers to the land they work, much of which has long since ceased to be "natural".
