Any excuse for a festival
Feb 17, 2020
3 minutes
WORDS BRIDGET HILTON-BARBER
“...even Tito Mboweni, the Minister of Finance, has a small farm near here”
Like many little dorps in South Africa, Haenertsburg is delightfully eccentric. The local people are fond of going up to the cemetery for a drink. They visit it all the time – happy hikers, grieving relatives, drunken lovers, curious historians, late-night teenage revellers, day trippers, weekenders, the heartbroken.
The cemetery is set among ancient trees on a hill with far-reaching views –
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