Oaklands Farm Supply | 1 Oaklands SCntr Pretoria St, Oaklands, Johannesburg, 2192, Gauteng

Oaklands was bought in 1860 by English millionaire Bob Hall as a gift for his wife Initially run as a game farm it took its name from the oak forest that was planted close for the manufacture of duiselbooms the long poles used at the time to hitch oxen to wagons Since then the property has been owned and managed by a filament of colourful characters including a clairvoyant who is supposed to have hosted seances in the upstairs rooms of the manor and a South African provincial cricket captain IN RECENT YEARSIn November 1995 Oaklands was bought by Sir Hervey James Hugh Bruce Clifton a former Major in the British Army After serving 27 years in the Grenadier Guards he decided to return to the country of his birth Jamie, as he was fondly called by those who knew him had spent the first six years of his life in Mooi River in the Natal Midlands and while searching for property in the area fell in love with Oaklands