It’s the morning after a fierce and blinding hours-long dust storm tore through the |Ai-|Ais/Richtersveld Transfrontier Park in the Northern Cape, and a fine layer of red dust blankets the desert outpost of Sendelingsdrift, a remote border crossing between Namibia and South Africa.
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