Wayne Jacobs writes:
I have a saying: “Maintenance costs money – no maintenance is priceless.” What that means is if something is correctly maintained on a regular basis it does indeed cost money, but when there is no maintenance done, especially over extended periods then it becomes very expensive to rectify what has not been maintained, and often becomes too expensive to correct the problem.
Case in point, “Potholelanesberg”, also known as Pilanesberg Game Reserve. This reserve sits in an ancient volcanic depression, and today the craters are reappearing at an alarming rate all over the depression. I have owned timeshare at Manyane for 20 years and every year I trek from Cape Town to Manyane, a distance of close to 4 000km return. At the current fuel price that is R12 000 as I drive a 4WD vehicle. Accommodation for an overnight stay both there and back comes to about R2 000,
