A Northumbrian by birth, Dr Prideaux Selby was already a middle aged bachelor when he sailed with the Byrnes' settlers to South Africa in 1850. He became the first doctor and Justice of the Peace to the Boer families in the Biggarsberg and lived at “Mooiplaas” for 25 years.
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Invitation to SACAP registered professionals to serve as a heritage specialist on the education committee. The Council invites Registered Professionals to submit their application for consideration as an Architectural Heritage Specialist to serve on the Education Committee.
REQUIREMENTS FOR MEMBER:
1. A registered architectural professional who is in good standing with SACAP.
BOOK REVIEWS
This is a history of chieftaincies, tribes, rivalries, land congestion, conflict over land and a repeated pattern of rural violence placed in historical context but also with an eye on the intractability of current politics. The background is set with a quick documenting of early history on the Tambookie frontier of the Eastern Cape of South Africa (take a look at the map of the Tambookie or nort-eastern frontier in