by admin | Nov 13, 2017
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...
by admin | Sep 14, 2017
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...
by admin | Jul 19, 2017
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...
by admin | May 14, 2017
François Le Vaillant: Journey into the Interior of Africa Summary of a talk given by D.J. Culpin to the Plettenberg Bay Historical Society on 14 May 2017 The French traveller and ornithologist, François Le Vaillant, wrote one of the most important eighteenth-century...
by admin | Mar 12, 2017
Introduction This is a short account of the woodcutter settlements in the southern Cape and the efforts made by the Cape authorities to improve the living standards of the woodcutters by settling them at selected locations on clearings abutting the indigenous forests....
by admin | Jan 29, 2017
It was a volatile time in South Africa at the outbreak of the First World War. Only 12 years had passed since the end of the Anglo Boer War which had bitterly divided the nation. Those South Africans of British descent and Afrikaners loyal to General Botha...