Memel
Memel is a tiny town in the very north of the Eastern Free State, in a beautiful and totally rural area on the ‘leading edge’ of the Drakensberg escarpment where majestic peaks lessen to become rocky ‘mesa-like’ hillocks. One of these hillocks, Spitzkop, situated on a farm 37km from the town, is famous for having been the site of South Africa’s first commercial airline crash in 1948. There is nothing there to mark the tragic event that killed all 13 people on board...