Lourina Coetzee
Owner of Sabaan Guest Farm and Event Venue
On the same gravel road that leads to Bambuu Lakeside Lodge, you’ll find this guest farm and event venue that was built and decorated by Lourina Coetzee. Her grandparents bought the property in the 1950s, but they never lived on the farm permanently.
Lourina has done many things in her life – teaching, owning a boutique and making Ikandla handcrafted candles that she exported to Europe – and moved here after the Covid-19 pandemic. She originally comes from Carletonville, where she owns and runs a guesthouse.
Lourina’s grandmother built the first four chalets at Sabaan in the 1960s, and Lourina revamped the old sheds as a wedding venue four years ago. She has a knack for upcycling old items and turning them into tasteful features in the venue: an old cement mixer as a
