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    Meet the locals

    May 28, 2021 3 minutes

    Carlien van Staden

    Riverview Stables

    Carlien has lived here at the southern end of the village for 16 years. Today, she shares a charming thatched house with her husband, Corné, and their three-year old son, Liam. Her parents also live on the 8 ha plot.

    “I grew up in Henley. We lived in Meyerton for a while and I spent a year at an equestrian academy in Summerveld, KwaZulu-Natal. I came back and started

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