Trade secrets

In the heart of the unspoilt Kogelberg Biosphere lies Pringle Bay, slumbering on the easternmost tip of False Bay. If you stand on the beach at dusk, you can see the lighthouse at Cape Point blinking across the bay

In this quiet holiday village with no more than 2 000 permanent residents, nature still sets the tone. There are no street lights, chain stores, bank branches or filling stations, and most of the streets are untarred. At night, small antelope roam among the houses – and in the daytime baboons take their turn.

This piece of fynbos paradise is the complete opposite of Rustenburg’s platinum mines in North West, where Adriaan and Ilse Halgryn, both in their early forties, worked in the financial department for years before they bought the only general dealership in the village, Pringle Bay Mini Mart, late