While driving in the Western Cape's Overberg region, Paul Schumacher and his wife Dagmar were captivated by the opensky country in the Bossieveld north-east of Villiersdorp, and decided that they wanted a property in the area. At the time, he was a foreign correspondent for a major German news outlet, and she a travel-guide writer and journalist.
The couple ended up buying Pendennis, a historic farm 10km from Villiersdorp, in 1987, and settled there with their one-year-old son Max. Although Paul ran it as a working farm, it was Max, many years later, who expanded