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CATEGORY: MOST BEAUTIFUL
THE OWNERS Jacques and An-Mari Coetzee
WHERE Oudtshoorn district
SIZE 122m2
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‘Early on, I learnt how to paint, drill, chop and saw – I could tackle all kinds of DIY tasks. This means that you aren’t dependent on service providers or anyone else, and you don’t have to pay extra for a ‘simple’ task.”
So says An-Mari Coetzee about her renovation project here at Kandrift Boerdery outside Oudtshoorn.
The expression “not afraid to get her hands dirty” perfectly sums up this Gauteng schoolteacher who became a farmer’s wife on an ostrich farm in the Little Karoo,