But her 29-year-old daughter, Adine van Eeden, a tall, slender blonde who shares her mother's love for animals, disagreed.

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Adine, who lives on the reserve with her dentist husband and two small children, is worldly in ways her mother is not.

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Despite the defections, Adine expects Camp Jabulani to be in the black within a year, although the lodge has had only a 10% occupancy rate since it opened in September 2003.

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Adine persuaded most of the grooms to stay.

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