Join us this Saturday 5 November for the final Book Faire for the year. Book Faire programme
- 08h00 Breakfast available in the restaurant. Please book a table at restaurant@randclub.co.za
- 09h00 Book Faire and Vintage & Artisanal Market opens – First floor
- 10h00 Tour of the clubhouse with architect, Brian McKechnie – Main staircase
- 11h00 Lionel Read The MiG Diaries book launch – The Armoury
- 12h00 Prof Kathy Munro’s talk on Charles Sydney Goldmann and sale of Goldmann maps - The Armoury
- 12h00 Lunch available in the restaurant. Please book a table at restaurant@randclub.co.za
- 15h00 Market closes
Lionel Read The MiG Diaries book launch – The Armoury
The MiG Diaries by Lt-Col. Eduardo González Sarria and Lionel Read with illustrations by Sean Thackwray
Co-author Lionel Read will launch this new book which contains fighter pilot memoirs and accounts of Cuban, SAAF and Angolan air combat in Southern African skies. Most books on the Angolan Bush War present the South African perspective of events. Now a former MiG-23 Squadron Commander of the Cuban Air Force has collaborated with and ex-SAAF pilot to paint a remarkable new picture of the aerial conflict over Angola in the 1980s. The sketches by Sean Thackwray, himself a former fighter pilot, helps to bring this unique story to life, along with select images, including many not seen in print in South Africa.
Book Cover
Prof Kathy Munro’s talk on Charles Sydney Goldmann and sale of Goldmann maps - The Armoury
In 1895 Charles Sydney Goldmann, a financial journalist and gold buff, published a major three volume study on the Gold Mines of the Witwatersrand. It was all about investment trends and the many emerging entrepreneurial mining companies across the Witwatersrand. The one volume comprised 99 maps of the mines. Goldmann was the Mr Goldfinger of his day. He made his fortune in gold mining investments but ultimately settled in the UK and Canada. He was clever, courageous, articulate and ambitious. He was an early photographer and went on to become a war correspondent and photographer in the Anglo Boer War, an early “embedded” journalist with General French’s column. This talk is about Goldmann, the man, his career, his mining maps and his achievements. The Johannesburg Heritage Foundation will also have a selection of original Goldmann mining maps for sale, each encased in archival film and individually priced.
Painting of Charles Sydney Goldmann
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