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DATE: 10 SEPTEMBER 2021 TIME: 10.00 VENUE: CATHOLIC CHURCH HALL, EASTCLIFF, HERMANUS (also on zoom, see link below) PRESENTER: ROBIN LEE THE HISTORIES OF HUMAN POPULATIONS AND SETTLEMENTS IN THE OVERSTRAND We can distinguish three phases of human occupation in the area that is now the Overstrand Local Municipality. The […]

The Riviera Hotel, the Grottos, and Grotto Beach By Dr. Robin Lee The grottos, Grotto Beach and Piet-se-Bos today The earliest written reference I can find to the grottos in Hermanus is in a Memoir by Nancy Okes (nee Napier) whose family traveled from Cape Town every year in the […]

SPEAKER: DR ROBIN LEE DATE: 20 AUGUST 2021 (10.00) The coastline of greater Hermanus (an area from Voëlklip to Fisherhaven) has attracted painters and writers since it was first settled in the 1850s. There were several reasons for this, including the natural beauty of the area, with ocean views and […]

A Presentation by Robin Lee to U3A: Overberg Monday 16 August 2021 at 10.00 Few novelists have their description of the period they lived in accepted as the name for the whole age. But in 1922, F Scott Fitzgerald published a book of short stories entitled “Tales of the Jazz […]