Sorry to come in so late.

I enjoyed looking through this post, and when I read about the chalets at the dam, I sort of wondered, a pity nobody took them over to use them as a retirement village.

Pensioners in SA do not get much, unless they invested in a private one, so I imagine that where accomodation could be provided cheaply, they could be popular - if not as full time residences, then as places for pensioners to go to for a ten day holiday, without it costing them six months pension.

I had thought of doing it years again when I saw some 3bedroom houses, some with swimming pools, which had belonged to the railway station, but then trains no longer stopped there, the station was closed and the houses abandoned. Unfortunately it was too dangerous because of the high unemployment in the area.