Cities often have, in their suburbs, places of interest and beauty. Cape Town is such a city. This particular place is the Arderne Garden in the suburb of Claremont. It is well known to brides as a place to take wedding photographs, also known to those homes near to it but there are many other […]
HISTORY
EX SLAVES – ENTREPERNEURS OF NECESSITY
Simon’s Town Marine Anchorage
DOLOSSE
Coast lines often need some means of protection against wave action, particularly harbour walls and breakwaters.
HONEY – THE KHOISAN AND THE SETTLERS
Honey is a tasty thick fluid humans enjoy eating in various forms. In the large background that we call history how did it become one of the causes for strife between the KhoiSan and the new settlers? Strife that got worse as politics began to form the future of South Africa and which would affect […]
A WALK AROUND A BEAUTIFUL WINE ESTATE
WHERE THE NEEDS OF A CLIENT CAN LEAD
Greetings from a Cape Town historian
I work as an historical researcher and accept commissions from clients in South Africa and from other parts of the world.