Afternoon tea has been served on the terrace of the Drakensberg’s Cathedral Peak Hotel since the early 1940s by the same family — the Van der Riets — who built the landmark in 1939.

But if the hotel cannot get the money it believes it is due from its insurers, along with thousands of other local businesses, that tradition may well be over...

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