BOOK REVIEWS

I presented this story at the Valentine's Day  Johannesburg Heritage Foundation celebration on the lawns of Northwards and thought Heritage Portal readers would also enjoy this South African story of love, endurance and resilience against the backdrop of the Second World War. It was one of seven presented at this event.

 

BLUE PLAQUES

The elegantly neoclassic Bear Lodge was designed in 1906 by Robert Howden for Henry John Hofmeyr. Prominent in politics and education, Hofmeyr served as Chairman of the King Edward VII School Governing Body for twenty-five successive years, was Mayor of Johannesburg in 1910/1911, and was elected the first President of the Convocation of Wits University in 1923.