The van plett historical society
Talks
Dr Clive Noble: Cecil John Rhodes: Was he part of a secret society?
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://www.youtube.com/embed/WOA1AN47T8I
A History of the Nuclear Struggle in South Africa
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...
GUY BUTLER (1918-2001) – South African poet, academic and playwright
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...
FEAST AND FAMINE’ – The Fishing Industry of Plettenberg Bay
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...
“A failed experiment” The Silkworm Industry of Gouna
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...
François Le Vaillant – Journey into the Interior of Africa
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...
Philip Caveney talks on The Woodcutter Settlements of the Southern Cape
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....
Brenda Sheperd talks on The 100th Anniversary of the Sinking of the SS Mendi
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...
Paul Scheepers: Rosalind Ballingall
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 ...
Sophy Gray
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...