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Cutting his teeth on a 126 Instamatic Kodak Film camera at the age of 7. He quickly grew into a Richo KR5 SLR 135 and there was no stop to his creativity.
He and his young wife opened a 1 Hour photo lab in Mtubatuba, moving quickly to Escort and found their footing in Secunda specializing in Street, Wedding, Babby and Studio photography.
Due to the rise in political tension before the 1994 democratic elections they moved down to St Lucia Estuary early 1993 with all their belongings.
Here they thrived and eventually entered the newly founded market of Tourism. Petrus became a very successful Tourguide and Tour operator establishing Open Vehicle game drives onto the Eastern Shores and developed that into night drives.
He played a pivotal part in Establishing the Hippo and Croc Tours as well as establishing Turtle Tour Concession. Everything went great until the minister of environmental affairs, Valli Moosa changed the landscape with the beach driving ban and Martunis van Schalk Wyk declared St Lucia Wetlands Park a World Heritage Site.
From there on Petrus was to focused in fighting for a Estuary Sediment Management Plan and The Ancestral Rights of the communities surrounding the park.
Eventually they lost all their capital and relocated the young family of four to Richards Bay in 2009. Petrus returned to St Lucia running a Tackle Shop until 2018 when he had to make way for family expansion.
Today he abide his time bringing public awareness to the masses though various Social media platforms on the atrocities that is accompanied by World Heritage Status.
Unfortunately he is very dependent on Donations since advertising is not something easy to sell to the businesses of South Africa and YouTube's add revenue is not enough to keep up with technology and supporting a family.
Therefore you can support Petrus Viviers through PayPal petrusviv@gmail.com
