The 212-year-old South African town with the biggest plantation of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere

• Klein Pella's date farm spans 18,000 hectares
• The town was founded by missionaries from the London Missionary Society in 1814 and later re-established by French Roman Catholic missionaries in 1882
• The Karsten Family Trust remains a major shareholder in the business, which now spans a network of farms along the Orange River