The gavel is poised to fall on the sale of 29 ordinary objects: including a handmade key, a book, a pair of sunglasses and an ID. Yet their sale raises an extraordinary question: when does a revered leader’s legacy become so central to a nation’s identity that it can no longer be treated as private property?
BOOK REVIEWS
Michael Stevenson’s Samuel Daniell: A Life of an Artist in Southern Africa and Ceylon, 1799–1811 stands as a work of rare distinction: sumptuous in production, meticulous in scholarship, and deeply rewarding in intellectual substance.
BLUE PLAQUES
Built about 1890, probably by Pieter Kruger, one of the sons of Paul Kruger. It is a simple rectangular structure, constructed with sun-dried mud bricks and a clay and cow-dung floor. There is a pitched corrugated iron roof, and it us noticeable that some of the sheets have been flattened.