Members Meeting Archive
July 19, 2017
We are pleased to welcome another guest speaker at one of our monthly members meetings. He is Dr. Michael du Preez, a medical doctor with a strong interest in medical history. He will be speaking about Dr. James Barry. Dr. James Barry was born Margaret Anne Bulkley in 1789, raised […]
June 7, 2017
We are pleased to welcome another guest speaker at one of our monthly members meetings. He is Antony Hamilton-Russell, owner of Hamilton-Russell Vineyards in the Hemel-en-Aarde Valley. Anthony was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1962. He is married to Olive and has four daughters. After schooling in Johannesburg […]
June 5, 2017
Site visit MONDAY 15 May 2017, 9am -1pm. Thirty members of the History society drove through Hemel en Aarde valley to Caledon, the start of the site visit in preparation to imagining the past and to see the present. Caledon originally known as Klein Zwarte Berg, an important agricultural area […]
March 6, 2017
As the centenary of World War 1 draws to a close we will be taking a closer look at the history of the Great War as it impacted on South Africans. Two presenters will make three separate presentations all linked by this theme. Dr. James Gray will present an illustrated […]