The cover of the Celebrate issue bears the intriguing headline: “Discover the most beautiful wall in the world”, and here it is: a Gaudi-esque explosion of colour rising up from the rippled sand of Port Nolloth in the harsh semi-desert of the Richtersveld.
The wall marks the boundary of a coastal development called KaiKai that is growing slowly and carefully, and while that happens, the wall continues to be built, providing employment to locals, as well as teaching the craft of mosaic. But most of all, this object of beauty in the harsh landscape is a labour of love and a source of pride, evidenced in sections that bear the names of 1500 Port Nolloth community members, forever commemorated in mosaic.
Visit the KaiKai website to find out more about this intriguing development.
This makes me very, very happy.
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This initiative is so inspiring!! Makes me proud to be a South African!!
Has anyone thought about this? They are developing in the Richtersveld. Is nothing sacred? Why a wall and houses in an area where the beauty lies in the isolation, the emptiness. Please preserve what is truly beautiful about SA – the wide open spaces. Keep the money-making development in the cities and leave nature to herself.
Paulette, I come from this area and Port Nolloth is NOT in the Richtersveld, so don’t worry. It might ‘technically’ be in the Richtersveld, but it is at least more then 150km from the Richtersveld. Port Nolloth could really do with some culture, because it is quite frankly not the coolest place in the world, so I am so happy that someone is trying to make it better and to uplift the people there.