Lammerfontein is a working Game/Sheep/Olive and Ostrich farm in the small Karoo area of South Africa, 290 kilometers North-West of Cape Town, close to the town of Laingsburg. 

The farm is 6500 Hectares ( +16,000 acres) of succulent Karoo with mountains, rolling hills, canyons, thickly wooded rivers and vast open plains.

Structures:

1 large modern farm house; 4 bedrooms, high ceilings, wooden floors swimming pool and large maintained garden, 7 staff dwellings, cottage style

4 utility buildings ; newly built large corrugated barn (+500m2), 2 smaller barns and 1 workshop,13 working boreholes with mills and watering points

4 cabins, rustic hunting camp with communal bbq area, seperate toilet and shower facilities

1 tractor with plough and blade, 1 Toyota 4x4 pick-up truck

Travel, location, towns and distances:

Lammerfontein to Laingsburg +/- 35 minutes on gravel roads Lammerfontein to Cape Town +/- 2.5 hours, mostly on the N1 ( National highway)

Closest town: Laingsburg ( Hospital, GP, 3 Petrol stations, restaurants, mechanics, supermarkets,petrol stations, police station and farming co-op)

Potential: Hunting potential vastly under-marketed. One of the best areas in the country for trophy Grey(Vaal) rhebok and Klipspringer. Perfect terrain for Black Wildebeest, Red Hartebeest, Kudu and Gemsbok.

Eco-tourism, quad bikes, canyon horse trails, corporate weekends with skeet and trap shooting as well as abseiling and rock climbing.

Wilderness experience within a few hours drive of Cape Town.

Small improvements on hunting camps and correct marketing could increase annual income derived from local and overseas hunting/eco-tourism to +$150,000 per year.

Agriculture:

300 Olive trees 6 Hectares of Onions ( Texas grano)

3 Permanent staff

Onions and Olives generate approximately $40,000 per year. ( all stock currently on the farm: +650 sheep and ostriches are not included in the sale)

 

Hunting/ Game:

+250 Springbok

+150 Grey Rhebok

+300 Grey Duiker

+150 Steenbok

+60 Klipspringer

+40 Blesbok

Kudu and Gemsbok frequent the farm seasonally

Game birds; Sandgrouse, Spurfowl and Doves

small predators; Lynx, Jackal, Aardwolf, Foxes as well as Baboons small scale hunting for local and over-seas hunters generates approximately $70,000 per annum

 

 

Sale price: ZAR 8 million (approximately US$ 1 million)

Contact details:

email: philipp@southernhunting.co.za

mobile: +27 82 3502320

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