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I woke up early this morning, stepped out onto the balcony into the fresh spring air.  I can smell the highveld jasmine all around. It makes me sneeze. Colorful birds are splashing in the birdbaths, and flower blossoms fill the trees. The colors will pop out soon, ready to celebrate the warmth. Day by day, the heat will build up, the clouds will get bigger, and the humidity will rise. Then the first thunderstorms will follow bringing bright blue clear moon skies. There will be rainstorms soon, followed by moonlight. It all happens in a day at Mr. C in...

It is over to level two lockdown. We survived it. It is time to breathe, let the fun begin in Harties at Mr. C. After four and a half months of limited movement and rights, it is finally time. Book a night or two out of town and settle in for a sunset drink overlooking the tranquil water of Hartebeespoort Dam. You deserve a drink, and you deserve a break, this lockdown situation was no fun, it has been intense. Take a short drive if you live in Gauteng and head northwest towards the Hartebeespoort Dam. Up against the hill...

It is in the middle of August we are all dead tired of the current lockdown. In this tough economic time, we are not allowed a drink or a cigarette, the frustration is mounting, as South Africans grow weary of 2020. What a year, did it even start. It feels like months of lockdown working in slow go mode, trying to keep it all floating and moving along. South Africans are creative, and creativity has been the rescue vice of this COVID year.   Cruising on the highway as I leave the City behind. The open road free flows stretched...

Mr. C is situated on the hill in Schoemansville in Hartebeespoort Dam.  The area is better known as Harties. Hartebeespoort Dam is a resort town in the North West Province approximately an hour's drive from Pretoria and just over an hour from Sandton. The Hartebeespoort means getaway of the Hartbeest, a species of South African antelope. The area is home to various residential homes, estates, and weekend homes. Hartbeespoort is a popular weekend getaway to people working in Gauteng. Hartebeespoort Dam's original name was Sophia Dam, in the valley between the Magalies Mountain and Witwatersrand, built in the year 1898.   Sophia Dam...