“That Sinking Feeling” The Van Plettenberg Historical Society is privileged to kick-start their new programme in 2019 with a visit from Rear Admiral Theo Honiball, who will talk about his days as a commander of a French-built flotilla of Daphne-Class submarines....

The Dunn and Harker families of Plett having a picnic at Robberg in 1948. The Van Plettenberg Historical Society Presentation will be held at the Plett Angling Clubhouse on Thursday 12thof July 2018

DATE: Thursday, 10th May, 2018 VENUE: The Plettenberg Bay Angling Club at the Keurbooms River TIME: 17h30 for 18h00 SPEAKER: Dr Clive Noble SUBJECT: Cecil John Rhodes: Was he part of a secret society? https://youtu.be/WOA1AN47T8I

18 January 2018, Mike Kantey, National Chairperson Coalition Against Nuclear Energy (CANE) Download pdf version Atoms for Peace Address by Mr Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States of America, to the 470th Plenary Meeting of the United Nations General...

David Butler, Headmaster of Greenwood Bay College in Plettenberg Bay speaks about his father Professor Guy Butler. The following is a transcript of David’s talk and is largely unedited. “I am fully aware that a lot of you may have known my father either as students or...

A talk given by Karin Kastern In the Knysna Plett Herald of 24 August 2017, we are introduced to the youngest leaders in the fishing industry of Plettenberg Bay, Wayne Craig and Peter-Blaine Dodds. I will take you back, and relate some history of how these young men...

Speaker: Rayno Sciocattis  In 1881 Rayno Sciocatti’s Italian ancestors were brought out by the Cape Government to start a silk industry in Gouna – about 14 miles north west of Knysna and over 900 meters above sea level. The immigrants were...

Speaker: Paul Scheepers In 1969 When I was a student at UCT there were other students who shared our cafeteria.  There was one striking girl. Six foot tall, slim very pretty with red hair and wore a hippy dress down to the ground This was Rosalind ...

SPEAKER: NATIE DE SWART Sophy or Sophia Gray was a multi-faceted person who happened to be a woman. It would be easy to talk about her and her achievements for a long time.   What I would like to do is to talk about the person and to put  her in...

Speaker: Dr Giovanni Coci I was born in Naples, Southern Italy and I am quite passionate about the culture and the history of this beautiful part of the world. The purpose of my talk is to share with you some facts about the history of Southern Italy which may not be...

A United Front of Khoikhoin Gounaqua & Amagqunukhwebe SPEAKER: Mike Kantey Events leading up to the 19th Century The first major driver behind the dispossession and fateful resistance of the indigenous and migrant African tribes of what became South Africa...

SPEAKER: David Hall-Green The country which we know today as Sudan is the biggest on the African continent. It would virtually swallow up most of Western Europe without so much as a hearty belch. The ancient Egyptians called it Nubia, and it was the source of slaves...

SPEAKER: Garth van Reenen The ancestor of the family was the noble Graaf Jacob Van Reenen of Memel in what was then Prussia, who came to the Cape in 1721 in a sturdy little ship, the Astria. His brother Daniel was the Mayor of Allenburg in Prussia and it is said that...

SPEAKER:          Clive Noble Mesopotamia The first recorded history of boxing was found in Mesopotamia in the Tigris Euphrates Valley. A terracotta relief of 2 bare fisted boxers was found in the Ninto temple dated about 3000...