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Each year, people around the world drink about 6 billion cups of rooibos tea. And all of it comes from just one small place in South Africa. Wupperthal is isolated. Its closest neighbor is 43 miles away through the Cederberg mountain range. The town’s only shop burned down in 2018 during a wildfire, which left behind the shells of 53 homes. But Wupperthal has endured, and it’s one of two places where wild rooibos is harvested. Going up into the mountains to gather wild rooibos is nothing new for the people of Wupperthal. Most are direct descendants of the indigenous Khoi pastoralists who harvested rooibos for hundreds of years. They taught European settlers about the many uses of the plant – settlers who, in the early 20th century, claimed rooibos tea and then made a global industry to sell it. Christoline Swartz runs Red Cedar Cosmetics, which sells rooibos shampoos, gels, and soaps. The 2018 fire consumed Red Cedar’s factory, but she continues to work from home. She learned about rooibos harvesting from her father, who learned it from his. To her, she said in Afrikaans, “Rooibos is ek.” Rooibos is me. In the view of producers like her, the European rooibos industry took more than traditional knowledge. It took culture. Identity. In 2019, the industry signed an agreement with Khoi and San representatives that recognizes the traditional knowledge of rooibos and pays recompense. It’s a sweet victory for the Khoi and San – and for Wupperthal, the beautiful soul of rooibos. – Tristen Taylor / Correspondent