Love a Little Local: Zama lekker in Sandbaai

Love a Little Local: Zama lekker in Sandbaai!

Writer Hedda Mittner

Photographer Taylum Meyer

Are you one of the many people who have noticed the intriguing little building on the Sandbaai common, right opposite the Sandbaai Superette? Is it a tiny home, or maybe an office pod? you may have wondered. Well, actually it’s a bit of both!

Richnard Marais and Jurie-Jan Swart are two young locals who have decided to pool their talents and partner in a new business venture. Jurie-Jan, who hails from Stanford and manufactures bespoke furniture, has channelled his interest in architecture into designing and building this small modular home as another cost-effective alternative to the growing popularity of container homes. Of course, it could also be used for office space or a small business – and that is exactly what the partners are hoping to do with this one.

On the one hand it showcases Jurie-Jan’s craftsmanship in designing and building pods (or ‘tiny homes’), and on the other, he and Richnard are hoping to open a coffee shop here on the ground that they’ve purchased. Not just any old coffee shop, mind you, but a modular drive-through one where you don’t even have to get out of your car. As far as they are aware, it will be the first of its kind anywhere in the country.

Click on the newspaper below to read more (see page 10).