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    THE ROAD TO happiness

    Mar 05, 2018 5 minutes
    TEXT JOHAN VAN ZYL
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    PETER VAN NOORD

    When Stanford’s food magician Mariana Esterhuizen and her husband, Peter, searched all corners of the Western Cape in the early 1980s for a wholesome place to settle, one question remained at the top of their criteria: “How would we feel about this place at six o’clock on a Sunday evening when the wind is blowing?”

    Well, when you drive into Geluksburg on a parched and melancholy Sabbath in September, it truly feels as if the goddess of fortune and her underlings have forgotten all about this small huddle of houses, situated at the foot of the Ntintwa Mountain between the Oliviershoek and Van Reenens Passes. You’re a mere 30km from the N3, 27km from Bergville and 47km from Ladysmith, but it feels as though you’ve been transported to another solar system, one where the 171 inhabitants (according to the 2011 census)

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