Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum

Meet your registered tour guide/driver in the foyer of your accommodation and drive through stunning scenery. Visit Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum offering insight into the lives of the labourers who built the vineyards and towns of the Cape flats and wine lands region. The museum will also expose how the labourers were paid in alcohol (now banned DOP system) and what the life was like during those days of eaked existence. It will also share where the community sees itself going to now and how tourism is bringing a new hope and vision into the community. The visit entails a short walk about to view the changes which the old ‘hostels’ have undergone, whilst some still remain to give insight into “Reality of lives of the day”.

Fairview Wine Estate

Depart for Fairview Wine Estate, which has developed a programme of empowerment for the labourers on the estate. This project is known as Fair Valley and entails that the visitor tastes the world class wines of Fairview. Aside from this you get the unique opportunity to purchase the home grown ‘own’ produced wines of the labourers under their own brand called “Fair Valley” (when available as much is exported today). The wine tasting is enhanced by tasting the high quality cheese produced by the wives of the farm labourers on the estate.

Cook-up with Kamamma

Next stop is Kayamandi Stellenbosch. Here you will meet the happy and charming Cook-up with Kamamma matriarch to enjoy a Cook-up in Xhosa tradition. This experience is stripped of ‘staged culture” and offers a true “Taste of local Reality”. It is a real and heart warming experience. The Dreamcatcher Kamamma shares her lifestyle and traditions of the Xhosa woman in an authentic home based setting. You will enjoy cooking an item or two of your hearty Xhosa traditional meal in a fun and participative encounter.

Yellow the Wire man

During the Cook Up lunch you will meet “Yellow the Wire man”. Yellow is a gifted wire artist – something we encouraged him to develop after he lost his job on a local farm. Yellow is from a Bushman (San) culture, who settled in the wine lands after migrating from the Northern Cape -to try to find a new life-: only to land as a labourer earning very little, on farms close by. Yellow and his family though dreamed of a better life. Learn fist hand from Yellow about his advance from shack to shares in their own micro tourism and craft company. Yellow demonstrates to the visitor how to make a wire craft.

You take your leave and depart to tree-lined Dorp street where legacy and fine examples of the Cape Dutch architecture abounds. Take a short walk to “Oom Samies” shop where you can purchase anything it seems. Depart back to your vehicle and drive via the R100 wine route, back to your accommodation.