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FRIENDS’ FORUM TALK
Dr Bruce Page, a world wide authority on elephants, spoke recently to the Friends’ Forum in Kloof. He gave an incredibly interesting talk to a rapt audience, entitled “The Mind Among the Trees: What kind of animals are elephants, and how should they be managed?” . Read the rest of Friends of Kloof Library »
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MY COMPENDIUM OF FASCINATING HISTORICAL IRRELEVANCIES – 1
Robin Lamplough
Anyone with some background in the 19th century history of the Cape Colony will remember the name of Dr John Philip, the superintendent of the London Missionary Society who was blamed for the 50th Ordinance of 1828, which extended rights of citizenship in the colony to “Hottentots and other free persons of colour”. Read the rest of The Reformer who Changed his Name? »
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MY COMPENDIUM OF FASCINATING HISTORICAL IRRELEVANCIES – 2
Robin Lamplough
Who would you describe as “the historian’s historian”? Read the rest of First ‘Englishman’ to use a Handkerchief? »
Robin Lamplough
The Kappie-suffragettes of Natalia- Another South African “First”?
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After their military victory over the Zulus at the Income, known to the Trekkers as Blood River, the families who had trekked into Natal felt secure enough to settle. They decided to establish a town on the Boesmansrand, and named it Pietermaritzburg. |
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Article reprinted here by kind permission of Dr. William Bizley, previously published in the Natal Witness.
Also available in the latest HHS newsletter (courtesy of Adrian Rowe)
This is a story that nearly did not happen. I mean, the events happened, but the story itself nearly disappeared forever. The jigsaw piece that eventually completed it lay around on a Natal sugar farm for nearly fifty years. Read the rest of First Aid on a Sugar farm- the contribution of U181 »
By Robin Lamplough
Do you remember the building of the Inanda Dam? Planning began in the 1970′s but, because the affected communities had not been consulted, construction started only in 1984. These events led to the discovery of new information about people who had lived in the Outer West. Read the rest of They Lived in the Outer West Episode 2 »