This article deviates from my primary focus on South African photographic heritage in that the photographs presented here were all captured during 2025; yet the underlying theme, in my view, remains heritage-related.
BOOK REVIEWS
This substantial and enthusiast-driven volume offers a wide-ranging survey of cycling as a sport in South Africa, written unmistakably by insiders for fellow devotees. Cycling has not attracted a large body of historical writing, and where it has, popular narratives—most notoriously those surrounding Lance Armstrong—have tended to dominate.
BLUE PLAQUES
Designed by the brothers Louis Theodore and Mark Obel in 1936, both architects who favoured Art Deco design, Circle Court is an impressive building, carefully adapted to its non – symmetrical site, once towering over the intersection from which its name derives. Clarendon Circle was a famous landmark – a large traffic circle surrounding an island of grass and palms – replaced by traffic lights in 1959.