Hamlet is seen by some people as a suburb of Ceres.
[laughs] Hamlet people don't like that at all.
My name is Adrian Wolfaardt
and we are presently in Prince Alfred's Hamlet
Mondesir to be specific is the name of the property where we are now.
In 1861, Queen Victoria's second son......
Prince Albert Ernest Alfred,
Sacoberg Guther
The son of Queen Victoria, visited South Africa.
He named it Prince Alfred's Hamlet.
That's why you have the apostrophe "s", it's a "hamlet"
A hamlet is a town without a church,
these days we have many different churches
but in those days, it was agricultural holdings.
The other story is....
Prince Alfred's horse was called Hamlet.
And he said, there are enough places named after him......
He'd like it named after his horse.
Prince Aldred's Hamlet ,
Prince Alfred's, with an apostrophe s, Hamlet.
Prince Alfred's horse, Hamlet.
I am Johan du Plessis, and we are in Prince Alfred's Hamlet.
I think Prince Alfred Hamlet, the uniqueness of the town
if I can take the different seasons
We are in an area that is pretty unique when it comes to seasons,
we have our winter, certainly one of the coldest winters,
the snow for example, which other places don't have,
in the summer the fruit and a bunch of visitors that arrive here.
I think this makes Prince Alfred Hamlet unique.
My name is Anthony Janse,
We are in Prince Alfred Hamlet where I have a small studio, called Ajays Photography.
Prince Alfred Hamlet is a small little village.
I love living there.
So I have a foot in both towns of Ceres and Hamlet.
I live in Hamlet, the business is in Ceres.
But Hamlet is really still a village.
My name is Angelique le Roux, we're in the mountains, the Skurwe Berge.
We are a very close knit, or near community
Like all small towns, everyone knows everyone,
and everyone's business.
It is actually a wonderful community,
and also rich in history.
My name is Bertdene Laubscher,
and we are currently in the "Togryers" Museum.
A lot of people ask, "What is a togryer?"
So the togryers were the people, especially after the discovery of diamonds,
transported goods from the coast inland.
Like a modern day transport company.
When you enter
it lies stretched out before you,
big.....
it looks like......
something that is waiting to be discovered, but its already discovered.
I am Lien Visagie.
So yes, we have a lot of stone fruit here.
A big exporter of dried fruit as well.
A lot of cold storage rooms and farms here. Top quality fruit.
I'm Breyton Benjamin, and we are in Prince Alfred Hamlet.
The basin we lie in ....
We call this area of Hamlet and Ceres the warm bokkeveld
Its a circular basin .....
with different mountains...
that forms the border.
So we all know the verse....
"I lift my eyes to the mountains, where will help come from."
And here you can do that, just like this.
[singing] The prettiest place in the bokkeveld,
it's so nice here,
and when the food is being prepared and the babies cry,
then we learn about ABC,
and the Aunties wash the cloths and the cook stirs the pot,
its really nice here.