Please join us on THURSDAY 17th August at Formosa Garden Village where Rodney Grosskopff will be telling us about the ill-judged and ill-fated Jameson Raid which took place in Krugersdorp on the 29th December 1895. This event remains one of the great mysteries and controversies of British imperial history. It certainly raised tensions between Cecil […]
Join us on Thursday, October 19th, at the Formosa Garden Village for the final event for the year which will include a brief Annual General Meeting. Our guest speaker will be Jimmy Zondagh, a member of the Zondagh family, who have been deeply rooted in Avontuur for nine generations. Doors open at 5:30 pm, for […]
We start our programme on Friday 8th March with a talk by Trevor Emslie on the life and times of Deneys Reitz as described by Deneys himself in his trilogy “Adrift on the Open Veld”. The Reitz family of Plettenberg Bay are direct descendants and this talk will, most appropriately, be held at Ouland Royale […]
We invite you to join us on Thursday 16th May, at Formosa Garden Village to hear DAVID HALL-GREEN tell us about his experiences 60 years ago as a trawler-man working out of the English fishing port of Brixham. Click here to book tickets via Quicket here As a young man in his twenties David Hall-Green […]
Our next talk will be held at The Old Rectory, opposite The Timbershed in the very heart of historical Plettenberg Bay. FRANÇOIS RENIER DUMINY A DREAM WHICH BECAME PLETTENBERG BAY FRIDAY 26TH JULY, 6pm AT THE OLD RECTORY, PLETTENBERG BAY Bookings can be made online via QUICKET or in person at Barneys Kiosk, Market […]
Mike Kantey - local historian, researcher, book editor and producer of limited edition works in the Watermark Press series, will tell us about the Griqua people. Emily Moon, set on the banks of the Bitou River in Plettenberg Bay, is a luxury hotel plus restaurant & pizzeria with a quirky attitude and a distinctly African […]
Please join us on 15th November in The Gazebo at the Beacon Island Resort when well-known Plett raconteur Rodney Grosskopff will take us back to The Boer War and tell us the story behind this dramatic poster and the events which followed. Click here to Livestream the event BOOKINGS CLOSE ON MONDAY 11th NOVEMBER This […]
Please join us at Formosa Garden Village at 18:00 on Thursday 20th March when local resident Dave Sykes will tell us about Matjesfontein 304 – and his association with the Read family of Keurbooms. Doors open at 17:30. Dave’s first visit to Keurboomstrand was back in 1952 when he first visited the Arch Rock campsite […]
We look forward to welcoming you to The Old Rectory on Friday 16th May when Dael Fairbairn, principal of award-winning Erasmus Fairbairn Architects, will tell us how she came to be entrusted with the restoration and transformation of The Old Rectory into a luxury boutique hotel. Known for their meticulous attention to detail, Fairbairn's firm specializes in […]
We have all enjoyed the breathtaking views from the passes which enable us to travel over our spectacular mountains and into the beautiful valleys beyond . But do we ever stop to think of the extraordinarily difficult journeys which faced our ancestors before these incredible gateways were built ? Do we pause to acknowledge the […]
Please join us in The Garden Room, The Plettenberg, Church Street, Plettenberg Bay, on Friday 12thSeptember 2025. Rodney Grosskopff, well- known Plett raconteur, renowned architect and amateur historian, returns to the podium to tell us about Louis Michel Thibault, one of South Africa’s greatest architects. Born 1750 in Picquigny, France, a small town on the […]
For our next talk we move off the land into the waters of our bay. Our speaker Bruce Noble will take us back to the blood-soaked and tragic events of Black December 1957. Between December 1957 and April 1958 at least nine shark attacks occurred along the coast of KwaZulu- Natal. Six people lost their lives. Tourists fled […]