On a recent visit to the Resource Centre of the Johannesburg Heritage Foundation at the Holy Family College, Oxford Road, Johannesburg, a new acquisition was on display, namely a brass name plate from the architectural firm “Kallenbach, Kennedy and Furner ARIBA Architects“. The brass plaque had been donated to JHF by Ronald Sutherland of Durban.
I recently found out that one of my great grandfathers from Königsberg and then Berlin, Hermann Bergmann, fought on the side of the Boers in the Boer War as a member of the German Freikorps. There is a story in the family that he shot elephants and made a series of postcards while he was there.
I wondered if anyone from the community might have come across his vintage postcards, or could best advise me how to research this?
To commemorate the 200th anniversary of the arrival of approximately 4 000 British settlers on the frontier of the Cape Colony in 1820, the Eastern Cape branch of the Genealogical Society of South Africa has published this substantial volume of local history, 1820 Settlers and other early British Settlers to the Cape Colony, edited by John Wilmot.
