![]() Skaap was inspired to open The Spade by two places thousands of miles apart: Bali and Johannesburg’s Soweto township. It has the sort of hustle and bustle that needs to be shared.” “It has such diversity, a rich culture and a real entrepreneurial spirit. “Khayelitsha is home, I was raised here and my family still lives here,” she points out. While detractors mutter that a location in one of Cape Town’s more celebrated tourist spots would make more sense for a four-star hotel, Skaap is determined to give something back to the area where she grew up. ![]() The enterprise is the brainchild of Annette Skaap, a flight attendant turned property developer who also owns a local nightclub and a number of restaurants with her husband Bulelani, popularly known as Ace Mabheka. Launched with the slogan ‘Experience the other side of Cape Town’, The Spade is South Africa’s first luxury boutique township hotel and features 13 elegant suites, gold-coloured cutlery, funky original art on the walls and a spa. The most eye-catching example of this ongoing transformation arrived in the city’s largest township, Khayelitsha, late last year.
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