Suitors queue up after widow moves 9,000 miles to find true love in Ireland
committed to starting a new life in Ireland.
The 46-year-old mother-of-one said: “At the moment I’m in the final stages of selling both my house and guesthouse and I’m planning to be over in Lisdoonvarna on September 7.
“I’ll be staying over in Ireland until mid-October and I really hope to have met someone by then.
“If I don’t meet anyone at the festival, I will still move over to Ireland, anyway, and I hope to do that by January of next year.
“South Africa is a beautiful country and we have great weather and warm-hearted people.
“But the country is not safe anymore.
“You always need to be home before it gets dark, because it’s too dangerous to be out.
“So I’ll be saying goodbye to everyone in South Africa in a few months and settling all my affairs and I’ll be making a permanent move to either Galway or Clare, where I’ll be hoping to start some kind of business.”
Marleze — who became enchanted with Ireland on two previous visits — said her 22-yearold son Kurgan-Ray would also be joining her in Lisdoonvarna for part of the festival.
The Lisdoonvarna Matchmaking Festival, one of Ireland’s oldest traditional festivals takes place in the small spa town every September.
The festival, now over 150 years old, attracts up to 60,000 people from all over the world.
It runs from September 1 to October 8.