Lucinda Isaacs and Kerone Haas
Chef and entrepreneur
Kerone does not hail from Genadendal, but his surname does. He is familiar with his father’s home town because, while growing up in Mpumalanga, he often spent his school holidays in the village. He moved here permanently in March 2021.
Because he comes from a business-orientated family, he jumped at the chance to rent a commercial property. “We didn’t know yet what we were going to do!” he says. Kerone opened the doors of the Mountain Valley Centre in December 2020, with a hardware store,