Speaker: Len Raymond Commissioned in 1788, Plett's Timbershed is an important symbol of the economic development of our sub-continent as envisaged and thereafter made good in the late-18th Century. For it came to be built and commissioned here at...
Tsitsikamma Rivers Project – quest to understand and conserve our rivers
by admin | Jul 8, 2012
Speaker: Geoff McIlleron The Tsitsikamma Rivers Project, launched in 2008, is a quest to understand and conserve the river systems of the Tsitsikamma mountains which are...
Diggings and important findings in the Blombos Cave
by admin | May 20, 2012
Speaker: Petro Keene A South African archaeologist with a considerable international reputation, Professor Christopher Henshilwood discovered Still Bay's important prehistoric cave site in 1991. He has close ties with two leading Universities – Wits...
Unlimited Child Expedition to the South Pole: The Last Degree
by admin | Mar 25, 2012
Speaker: Peter Berning This bit of trouble that I got into began at UCT (Smuts Hall, 1968). Iain Buchan and I were new men together and both products of the Transkei, where our...
The Anglo-Zulu War of 1879
by admin | Jan 29, 2012
Speaker: Timothy Twidle In the mists of time, Africa South of the Limpopo, was an endless land of scattered riches and infinite variety. The continental divide crowded the eastern coast, fencing off a well-watered belt that rounded the southern end of the...