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Somewhere beyond the familiar soundscape of Mthatha’s morning — past the open market rhythm, the combi stops, the school bell — something new is rising from the Eastern Cape’s red earth.
It is not merely a building project, not just a development. It is a question posed in brick and brush: What might community look like when the future is invited in early?
Eso’s Nest Eco Estate arrives as the first lifestyle estate in this region — quietly, deliberately — marking a departure from the assumption that lifestyle living is the domain of the metropole. Here, on 4.2 hectares of gently sloping farmland, the promise of sustainability is not dressed in jargon but grounded in function: solar infrastructure that hums without proclamation; water systems that do not forget the drought years; design that considers not only the home but the land around it. It is not just a place to live, but a way of living.
Elsewhere, in the lush fairways of George, Kingswood Golf Estate turns a new page in its evolving story. The launch of a community centre and clubhouse — not merely a structure of stone and glass but a gathering place in the truest sense — signals a reaffirmation: of leisure as community, of golf as a connector, of estates not as enclaves but as ecosystems. With its new membership offering, Kingswood is extending both a welcome and a vision: one where heritage and innovation meet at the 19th hole.
And as the season softens into July, Regal Escapes joins the Estate Living journey — not as a provider of cruises, but as a curator of experiences. Their selection of bespoke ocean and river itineraries reads less like a travel brochure and more like a passport to pause. There is something deeply resonant about choosing not only where we go, but how we get there — and whom we bring along.
In this issue, we also ask questions about land and leisure, about what it means to steward a golf course in a time of climate reckoning. Sustainability, long treated as an aside in the sporting world, is beginning to take its rightful place at the centre of design, policy, and purpose. And amid all this — quietly powerful, often overlooked — we find women shaping the greens and shaping the future: players, planners, pioneers.
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At Estate Living, we do not only chronicle the present — we listen for the murmurs of what’s to come. This month, they speak of bold new beginnings, of elegant solutions, and of the enduring human desire to belong, to wander, and to return.
