In the article below, Tertius De Wet, Jef L. Teugels, and Pieta Van Deventer trace seven church bells back to the C. Voss & Sohn foundry in Stettin, now Szczecin in Poland. All seven still hang in Lutheran and Dutch Reformed churches in South Africa's Eden district. Most arrived through the Berliner Missionsgesellschaft, the German missionary
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Johannesburg from the Riverbanks: Navigating the Jukskei is an ambitious and timely contribution to Johannesburg studies. Bringing together twenty-one chapters by twenty-six contributors, the volume emerged largely from the 2023 Riparian Urbanism project and seeks to reposition the Jukskei River
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On 8 December 1900, Major-General Ralph Clements camped below the Nooitgedacht cliffs with a force of 1500 British soldiers and ten artillery pieces. Before dawn on 13 December, 2500 Boers under Generals De la Rey, Smuts and Beyers attacked, Beyers from the top of the Magaliesberg and De la Rey from the base. 300 British soldiers defending the summit were quickly overwhelmed.