It is with great sadness that we have learned about the passing of our friend and colleague, the esteemed conservationist and urbanist Nicolas Baumann, who died on his birthday (that he shared with his twin brother Sean) on the 7th January 2025.
ARTICLES
BOOK REVIEWS
Joline Young’s new book, “An uncomfortable paradise” takes us on a journey, part personal, part historical, and a South African history that few know of – early colonial life in Simons Town.
BLUE PLAQUES
This was the last and largest of three steam driven power stations built in Newtown to supply electricity to Johannesburg. Constructed between 1927 and 1934, it consisted originally of a shorter Turbine Hall and a single “North Boiler House”. The station could not keep up with the City’s demand for electricity, and so , in 1934, the South Boiler House ws built, and the Turbine Hall extended.