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Coffee & the staff of life

Who would be crazy enough – or have strong enough faith, for that matter – to open a farm stall with a bakery and the promise of coffee (at a mere R5 per cup) on April Fool’s Day 2002 – and, at that, one with the tongue-in-cheek name of Broodblik en Koffiepit (Bread Bin and Coffee Bean)?

Well, there are three “guilty parties” in this tale and, 18 years later, as they warmly welcomed , they could say it wasn’t such a crazy idea after all. One of them is the jovial Adéle Bester, a former SAA flight attendant who in 2005 joined the family business that her mother, Letitia van Schoor,

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