2015
September 30, 2015
Proposal: To restore, conserve and make use of Ella Gordon’s farm “Karwyderskraal”: her homestead the dwellings around it the Horse Graveyard Karwyderskraal is a cultural landscape with an agricultural history. Its significance lies in the period in which Ella Gordon owned the farm bequeathed to the Moravian Church who continue […]
September 29, 2015
I came across a website www.buzzfeed.com recently where a follower, called travelguru, rated Clarence Drive (or, more prosaically, a portion of the R44) as the best scenic drive in the world. But there is no mention of the interesting history of Clarence Drive. In the 17th century, individuals and families started moving […]
August 28, 2015
The Overstrand Municipality has an unusually long coastline in relation to its area. Yet it has been exclusively settled from the land. This means that there are many points along the coast where human beings have come into contact with the ocean for the first time. Several realities determine what […]
August 28, 2015
In the mid-19th century the early inhabitants of Hermanuspietersfontein called it “Klip Kop” – an isolated hill rising some 75 metres above sea-level on the otherwise flat plain on which their village lay. The origin of the name was fairly obvious to anyone looking at the koppie. It comprises two […]