[I visited Keith & Colleen at their beautiful estate in April 2007 and it is extremely beautiful. The Eastern Transvaal is unquestionably the most beautiful part of South Africa. This estate is very close to the town of Waterval Boven. The whole area is very scenic surrounded by beautiful mountains. It is just a short distance off a main tarred road, so access to it is very easy.

Keith and Colleen are retiring and are moving to the USA to live with their sons. American buyers are therefore welcome. During my last discussion with Colleen the going price is roughly in the region of US$1 million or about R5 million. For more accurate details, however, Keith and Colleen’s full contact details are below. Jan]

An African Dream…
An estate in the beautiful scenic province of Mpumalanga in S.Africa… only one hour away from the world famous Kruger National Park and new International Airport, (which was built especially to bring tourists to the Park)… and only 2 and a half hours away from the tropical coastline of Mocambique. It is a touristy region where hiking trails, trout farms, rock climbing, hang gliding, microlighting & mountain biking are popular pursuits. The estate is also conveniently close to the Africa’s largest cosmopolitan city of Johannesburg… only two & a half hours away on the N4 freeway. It is 70km from Nelspruit.

The details of Malaga Estate:-

Portion 22 of the farm Elandshoek 339 J.T. measuring 37.5 hectares (92.6 acres) consolidated title 7287/1993 SGD-LG Nos A915/1992.

Immaculate large (approx 600sq m(43)+) Mediterranean style house with tiled roof, surrounded by electric fence with electric gates, security lights in garden. All weather tennis court with night lights. Fully equipped gym. Lovely swimming pool. Beautiful (2 hectares(43)+) large park like garden(abundant bird life) with irrigation sprays throughout. Four vehicle carport. 20 k.v.a diesel generator. Pumped borehole with 3 large glass fibre storage tanks serves house. Forty pecan nut trees in orchard behind the house.

The house incorporates 4 bedrooms, & 3 bathrooms and is tiled/carpetted throughout. The main bedroom wing with bathroom en suite, has its own dressing room & study, plus an enclosed private courtyard. There is a TV lounge, (house is wired for DSTV – satellite TV), a formal lounge & fireplace, & a 3rd large informal lounge (with bar at one end) overlooking a tiled veranda, a wooden deck, and the garden & pool area. The large dining room adjoins the formal lounge. A second courtyard features a fountain. The house is totally secure, with mediterranean style burglar barring on the windows & high palisades enclosing the 3 courtyards. The kitchen has a hob oven & breakfast nook. There is also a scullery/laundry and storeroom.

In the garden is a self contained thatched cottage, with a bedroom, bathroom & sitting room/eating area. The domestic servants quarters in another cottage features 2 bedrooms and a bathroom & toilet. Both cottage & domestic servants quarters have their own satellite dishes.

There are 2 sheds on the estate… one is a large new brick/steel shed with roll-up lockable doors and modern alarm system which would convert well into stables or back-packers’ dormitories. The second shed (also alarmed) houses the tractors & farm equipment. The showers & toilets for the farm workers are incorporated in this building, as is the farm office upstairs. Next to this shed are park homes with 6 double rooms (farm workers’ quarters).

There are 2 dams on the farm. One is recreational, but could obviously be used as a water source. The other smaller dam is the holding dam that collects water from the mountain streams & gravity feeds the irrigation layout on all the commercial lawn fields, as well as the garden around the house. In addition a new submersible electric pump was installed in 2005 on the Elands River, pumping 30,000 litres/hr through the irrigation system, risers, sprayers etc. The estate has irrigation rights for 12 hectares. The one boundary of the farm is the Elands River, which flows all year. Perched on the river bank, close to the estate boundary, is a delightful little boutique hotel, ‘The Malaga’, which used to be part of the estate, before it was sold off separately some years ago.

We have run this farm for four and a half years as an instant lawn business, (Lowveld Lawns), and interested buyers could buy it as such & continue to run it as a going concern. Tractors, transport & equipment could be factored into the purchase price. It is a VAT registered company. Alternately it would be run as a B&B, an equestrian centre, or simply used as an estate to retire to in the country… for those who long to escape from the bright lights.

Sincerely,
Keith and Colleen Henderson.
Box 95,
Waterval Boven,
1195,
South Africa

eMail: [email protected]

Tel/Fax: 013 2577018 / (43)+27 13 2577018
Mobile: 083 5555737 & 083 5555472 / (43)+27 83 5555737 & (43)+27 83 5555472

Here are photos of Malaga Estate:-
Front of House with Deck & Pool.

Section of the Front Lawn.

Driveway to the House.

A closeup of the all weather tennis courts.

Pecan nut trees & tennis court.

Looking from main bedroom, across its own courtyard, to open French doors of bar/casual lounge area. The French doors in the middle of photo are the computer room & windows at right of photo are those of guestroom/bedroom nos 2.

Looking back at French doors of main suite (from court yard).

Guestroom/bedroom nos 2… smaller than main guest room.

TV lounge: The far door leads to wing with main suite (bedroom & bathroom, dressing room & study nos 2).

The Large guest room… (guest room nos 1).

The Gym.

The Bar… looking across courtyard to main bedroom.

Looking through the casual lounge into formal lounge at the end.

Pool & section of front garden.

The Elands River on the southern border of the farm.

The Front of the house & pool.

The corner of holding dam, which collects water from mountain streams (the water runs into dam at the right of photo)… this water gravity irrigates the lawn fields, as well as the large garden around the house.

A portion of the view from the large dam.

The large dam.