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ABOUT HAGA HAGA:
Haga Haga is
situated on the Eastern Cape Wild Coast 70km from East London;
there is 13km of gravel road and conditions range from good to
bad, but never inaccessible. This is what has kept Haga Haga
the pristine place that it is.
Haga Haga as a
village was started in the early 1920’s when farmers from the
hinterland acquired farms here for winter grazing; they would
move everything, goats, cattle, sheep etc by ox wagon down to
the coast for 3 to 4 months. To cross the beach they would unspan one team of oxen and hook them onto the other team,
hence the word Haka Haka which is the Xhosa word to “hook on”,
this is how Haga Haga got its name.
The hotel was
started during the depression years as a 5 bedroom boarding
house by “Daddy” Hobbs and a couple of years later White Waves
Inn was devolped, the original Chemaly cottage was bought and
this formed the main building, kitchen, lounge, dining room.
In the early 1960’s the Brill family, ex traders from the Transkei, bought both hotels and combined them to form one
complex. On the 1st April 1975 Sandy & Neil Chemaly
bought the hotel, arriving here to lighting plants, paraffin
fridges and coal stoves. Over the past 30 years saw numerous
changes and renovations to the hotel, old wings were
demolished and rebuilt, the family accom rebuilt to make
self
catering canana’s, swimming pool and tennis court added, new
ladies bar and the old bar converted into a conference center.
The additions and upgrading is ongoing with new rooms been
planned. |
