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February 14, 2024

Snippets of History at Stonefields

Please visit members meeting (archive) 26 June 2023 to recall your visit and photos thereof Stonefields, Route 43 is the site of an artisanal wine production situated inside a heritage building. This winery building was built out of mud and stone in 1913 by the Sheriff Building Contractors. It was […]
January 30, 2024

History Talk Summary (5/2/2024)

A Journey Through History: The Hemel-En-Aarde Valley- Angela Heslop The Hemel-en-Aarde Vallei or, in English, “The Valley of Heaven-and-Earth” Valley” is believed to take its name from the writings of one Brother Schmidt, a Moravian missionary in the 19th century. The presentation takes you on a journey through the Valley, […]
January 29, 2024

U3A New Year Message 2024

New Year Message from your Committee Greetings U3A Members, and welcome to 2024. We have an exciting year ahead of interesting, informative and stimulating presentations coming up in 2024. Gert Claassen and his Programme Committee have been hard at work on the programme, and it is taking shape well. We […]
December 22, 2023

News Update December 2023

BREAKING NEWS As some of you will recall at the recent members meeting on the 13th November I mentioned that the future of the History Society was under review Back ground of our society. The late Esje du Toit & Angela Heslop created 2 local history boards with 2 colleagues […]
December 21, 2023

Homage to SJ Du Toit (1940-2014)

   
September 6, 2023

DR IAN MARAIS: “How I became a surgeon”

INTRODUCTION:  ORAL HISTORY by Walt Mapham Ian’s oral history of his own life in South Africa and the lives of people around him is like the passing down of a family’s heirloom. It provides a fuller, more accurate picture of the past by putting small history (personal) in context of big […]
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