Swallows Gone: Helderberg Businesses Rediscover Local Residents After Seven-Month European Romance
As the last European “swallows” migrate northward clutching duty-free rooibos tea and slightly sunburnt memories of the Cape the Helderberg business community now faces its annual winter tradition: remembering local residents still exist. For months the region transformed itself into a Mediterranean fantasy designed almost entirely around visitors paying in euros pounds and occasionally alarming…