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ER scenes shot in Northern Cape

29 May 2007 The Darfur Refugee Camp scenes of the popular ER series, currently broadcast on Monday night on M-Net, were not shot in Sudan but in the Northern Cape.

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Khamkirri Private Game Reserve, near Upington, was chosen as the perfect location to imitate the landscapes of a Darfur Refugee Camp in Sudan. It was far more convenient to use the professional Khamkirri and surrounding Green Kalahari infrastructure than to film on location in Sudan.

Television set builders and décor designers arrived early in January 2006 and the actors and production managers followed in February. World famous actors Mekhi Phifer, who plays the role of Dr Gregory Pratt, Noah Wyle acting as Dr Carter, and Eamann Walker were all on set.

Approximately seventy crew members booked in at Khamkirri and other well-known guest houses such as Vergelegen, Ebenaeser and Belvedere, situated in the Augrabies and Kakamas districts. Khamkirri hosted most of the VIP crew members in fully equipped camping tents and was also responsible for providing the security in and around the set as well as catering for some of the crew. Their own tsiTswana workers rode Khamkirri’s tame horses, used in some scenes. Other members of their staff together with Riemvasmaak community members were employed to play the roles of extras.

The actual shooting took only two weeks, but the Northern Cape can be proud of the high standard of accommodation and services it provided to this international film crew.

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