(1) Its meander begins at the railway siding and extends down the bleak R545 road to Bethal, passing between open-cast coal pits and dried-up mealie fields.

(2) Mealie pudding

(3) Mealie pudding

(4) One of my earliest memories is of sitting at our kitchen table, talking to Gladys, my Zulu nanny, while a pot of mielie pap porridge bubbled on the stove.

(5) The farmer was selling mielies on his farm near the Blinkfontein road when four men in a black VW Golf with tinted windows robbed him of his cellphone and cash, then shot him.

(6) Some sell mielies roasted in coal umbhawulas to locals, while others play soccer to pass the time.

(7) The trekkers also planted maize (which they called mielie , whence the African term u2018mealies') wherever they settled, and this soon came into cultivation by the Africans.