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Dolosse
dolos, pl. dolosse Visitors to the seaside and frequenters of port cities will be familiar with those oddly shaped concrete forms which are dropped together to form breakwaters and prevent erosion. It...
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The Feast of St Valentine in the Cape
Die fees van Sint Valentyn in die Kaap Chivalry is not dead in South Africa: on the feast of Saint Valentine, the third-century martyr and patron-saint of lovers, the men of Majuba House at...
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‘Disgraceful Scenes at Stellenbosch’
The 1957 Intervarsity Match Flicking through the argiewe the other day I stumbled upon this little report from Johannesburg’s Sunday Express of 26 May 1957 describing the displays of disrepute at the...
View ArticleKlein Gidding
Gedig van die dag: ’n Vertaling van net die laaste vers van ‘Little Gidding’, die vierde van Die Vier Kwartette deur T.S. Eliot. […] Bekend nie, want nie gesoek nie Maar gehoor, half gehoor, in die...
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The Perfect Home Garage
The Coach-House at Saasveld, Cape Town With all of Suburbia working from impromptu home offices set up in their garages during Covidtide — presumably clinging to their space heaters at this time of...
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An African View of the Heavens
Catholic Clerical Skygazers at the Cape of Good Hope In 1685, the Jesuit mathematician, astronomer, and not-quite-secret-agent Fr Guy Tachard stopped off at the Cape of Good Hope en route to Siam as an...
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The old Dutch houses of the Cape
From Here There and Everywhere (1921) by Lord Frederic Hamilton: THESE OLD DUTCH HOUSES are a constant puzzle to me. In most new countries the original white settlers content themselves with the most...
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Old Church, Paarl
Edward Rowarth, Old Church Paarl oil on canvas, 19½ in. x 60½ in.; Private hands (formerly in the KWV Collection) The church in die Paarl is the third-oldest NGK congregation in South Africa, after...
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A Cape Dutch Garden at Chelsea
Jonathan Snow at the 2018 Flower Show I’m ashamed to say I’ve never been to the Chelsea Flower Show, the most florid event on London’s social calendar. It is a delight flâneur-ing around the...
View ArticleDie kleine dorpie Betlehem
JA JA JA, ons onthou: die Amerikaanse Episcopaalse biskop Phillips Brooks was nie ’n bolwerk van ortodoksie nie. Hy het die ryk van gevoel bo die waarheid verhef, maar nie noodwendig teen die waarheid...
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