Meet the people behind
Cintsa Horses

Born in Gloucester, a county well known for breeding horses in England, Georgie was educated at Denmark Rd Grammar School and Brookethorpe Riding School.
She started riding at the age of 10. Her general duties were the running of a fairly large yard, and working with disabled adults and children once a week. She looked after show jumpers belonging to international competitors Tony Mears and David Broome.

She has bred Anglo Arabs at Overton Farm, Maismore, with the help of Mrs Ellis of Chepstow.
Georgie moved to Zambia in the early 70’s, but always kept in contact with the horse world through local stables and horse owning friends. She moved to Zimbabwe in 1979 and to South Africa in 1984.

Once in South Africa, in a more settled environment, Georgie acquired a pony for her kids. A few years later, after moving around a bit to the Drakensberg and back, Georgie and the girls adopted a welshy by the name of Rhinestone, a lovely strawberry roan.

She had always said "I would go back to my horses once the children were bigger". Her Dad always said horses would be a 5 minute wonder, but here she is, 40 odd years later, trying to realise her dream.

In 1998 she decided to start a beach horse trail business.
She was granted permits for 8 horses that could be ridden from Glen Eden to Cefani incorporating both Cintsa’s East and West. This has since grown to 12, and the distance has increased to include Cape Henderson, which gives her approx 25 km’s of coves and pristine beach to use for trails.
Not to mention the trails added to this by having 100’s of acres of bush.

On starting this venture she was not in a position to buy prime stock and tended to purchase poor stock, which she then brought on and used for trails.
This is how the rehab centre came about. She stayed in her permanent job while her daughters managed the horse trails, although she would help out on weekends and during Sunrise rides.
Money that was made was ploughed back to acquire tack and more horses.

Georgie joined Penny on a permanent basis when Tanja went to Inkwenkwezi Private game reserve to do horse trails there.

Penny Dickerson

Born in Zimbabwe in 1981, Penny started riding at the age of 4.

Penny was educated at Stirling High School in East London.

Her family worked in the hospitality trade for 3 ½ years at Drakensville Holiday Resort in the Northern Drakensbergs, where she helped with horse trails into the berg to view bushman’s paintings and the local waterfalls.
Drakensville is situated just below the Amphitheatre, and in full view of the Tugela Falls.

Penny left school to work as an equestrian student at local stables and went on to run the trails for Cintsa horse. She was very involved in the training at the farm of the horse trail guides from the Transkei during the project with the European Union.
She spent many hours on the beach encouraging them to learn more about their local environment and how to care for it.
Penny has her tour guide registration which includes a level 1 first aid diploma, as a horses trail guide.

She is a very professional guide and has an excellent knowledge of the ecological make up of the beach areas, her love of dolphins is very apparent in her personal being; they always seem to be there when she is riding on the beach.

Penny enjoys doing community development work, and has been an avid horse lover since childhood. In fact, as far as she is concerned, the horse is more important than the rider. She is an integral part of the rehab centre.

Penny is very popular with the visiting backpackers, from the beginner to the experienced rider, and her personality and knowledge of her horses is admirable.