The New Main Street, Automobile, Horseless Carriage, Wagon and Wheel Works, was a joint of goings-on orchestrated by a gentleman with the surname of Swarts. The patrons of this establishment regarded themselves as being of ‘The Realm of Real Men’, those scared of nothing… not a hard bed, hooch, spitting snakes, nor evil eye. They loved old American trucks, Fords and Jeeps and such. Land Rovers were regarded with disdain.
Swarts was a prospector who wore old hats and scratched about for gold in little known parts of Zululand. While working in the remote Bulls Run area of the uMlathuze River Valley, he came across a series of low waterfalls, pools, and sandy beaches, known as the Ngotshe. It is here that he found gold.
Being an adventurer at heart, the Ngotshe area gave Swarts some food for thought.
