heuweltjies

Purple spring flowers growing on termite mounds in Namaqualand. A Potts, Author provided     By Michele Francis, Stellenbosch University     The landscape along the Buffels River in South Africa’s Namaqualand region is dotted with thousands of sandy mounds that occupy about 20% of the surface area. These heuweltjies, as the locals call them (the word means “little hills” in Afrikaans), are termite mounds, inhabited by an underground network of […]