THE KWENA BASIN SCHOOLS PROJECT, 2011 – 10 YEARS ON Background The Kwena Basin Schools Project, now in its 10th year, developed through a partnership between the Kwena Basin Conservancy, a group of like-minded landowners, and the Wits University faculty of Education who wanted to support education in the local community. The community The community served by the Kwena ...
Verlorenkloof is 12 year old this year. Sometimes it feels like a moment, but when we see teenagers at Verlorenkloof who were babies when their families visited for the first time, the passage of time is all too real. One also then experiences a strong sense of blessing, and of the worth of the place. The surrounding community ...
Dear Verlorenkloof Owner & Friend If we have not yet spoken to you yet this year - Happy 2011 - may this turn out to be a good year for you and yours. As you can see from the header of this mail, I have decided to dust off and re -instate our regular newsletter, MOUNTAIN ...
When a Pretoria family, the Johnsons, bought a small farm in a secluded valley south of Lydenburg 40 years ago this month for a weekend retreat, they could never have dreamed that the property holding would expand and become Verlorenkloof, an own mountain home for many more families. Over the years, weekend visitors to the farm ...
Trout were introduced to rivers around Lydenburg in the 1940’s through the dedication of the German born jeweler F C Braun. He made it his business to breed fingerlings and distribute them, driving out to rivers in the vicinity over weekends, and striding many miles through the veld carrying two 5 gallon paraffin cans teeming ...
You are invited to an OPEN DAY - on Saturday 23 October 2010 - @ Verlorenkloof Estate in the beautiful foothills of the Steenkampsberg, Mpumalamga. We are hosting this event for owners, friends, neighbours, amicable media folk & those in search of the perfect place to own a family holiday getaway. In line with the worldwide trend ...
Verlorenkloof now offers a fully catered, special package in the form of midweek breaks. Available out of school holiday periods from Monday to Thursday nights weekly. The package includes croft accommodation, brunch at the lodge and dinner at you croft. Bring nothing but yourself and drinks. All this for only R 850 per person per night. Please ...
Winter only hit us a week ago. Like everywhere else in the country we had become spoilt by the mild autumn temperatures caused, I understand, by a protective blanket of moisture in the lower atmosphere resulting from summer with it’s copious rains. The front that came through last week finally swept all that before it, sucking ...
The Lodge at Verlorenkloof is built, fitted, furnished and we moved in early in March. It replaces the old farmhouse which used to house reception, offices, laundry, stores, TV facility and a small shop. From the time the building was conceived in 2005 it was always going to be more than the sum of these necessary ...
A new year is like turning a page, a mixture of recollection and expectation. One always hopes the story is just going to get better, and I think it invariably does, if only because the bad recollections fade away quietly. At Verlorenkloof, our 2010 year began on a really wet note. The heavens opened and although we ...
