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January 19, 2022

Preserving the cemetery ‘behind the koppie’

Writer Robin Lee, Hermanus History Society We have several words in English to refer to places where we bury our dead: burying ground, burial place, graveyard, churchyard and cemetery, for example. In the history of Hermanus, different terms have been used at different times. It also appears that different places […]

November 17, 2021

DESTINATION HERMANUS (third Instalment)

The Napier Family This account of a more recent journey to Hermanus was written by Nancy Okes (born Napier) and tells of a trip from Cape Town to Hermanus almost exactly 100 years ago, in 1922. The writer contributed a chapter to the book “Hermanus Stories III” by S J […]

November 17, 2021

DESTINATION HERMANUS

The first hints of summer are in the air, and maybe the fourth surge of Covid 19 will not materialise in December. If the weather holds and Covid stays away, thousands of tourists, holidaymakers and owners of family holiday homes will be travelling to destination Hermanus in December. Their travel […]

November 17, 2021

DESTINATION HERMANUS

The first hints of summer are in the air, and maybe the fourth surge of Covid 19 will not materialise in December. If the weather holds and Covid stays away, thousands of tourists, holidaymakers and owners of family holiday homes will be travelling to destination Hermanus in December. Their travel […]