The multinational naval exercise WILL FOR PEACE, hosted by the South African Navy in Simon’s Town, brought the navies of China, Russia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates to Cape waters in January 2026.
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
This site marks the eastern boundary of the Randjeslaagte Triangle where Johannesburg was founded in 1886. Randjeslaagte was a piece of uitvalgrond - land left over from the farms around it.
Mosaic by Drew Lindsay