In the article below, Jaco Mattheyse explores the history behind a well-known Krugersdorp landmark: the old Police Station on Commissioner Street. He begins by unpacking the social and political landscape of the town in the 1890s.
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The sudden passing of Ufrieda Ho on 9 March 2026, just short of her fifty-third birthday, is a profound loss to South African journalism and literature. Those who knew her work will remember a writer of warmth, curiosity, and moral clarity, someone who approached the human condition with empathy and an instinct for the telling detail.
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This house was designed in 1902 by architects Leck and Emley for Richard Baumann, an attorney who served on Milner's Permits Committee. This committee controlled the return of so-called Uitlanders - British subjects who had been forced to leave Johannesburg when war between Britain and the ZAR broke out. Ridgeholm marks the first use in Johannesburg of Cape Dutch gables as a clearly South African element.