The gavel is poised to fall on the sale of 29 ordinary objects: including a handmade key, a book, a pair of sunglasses and an ID. Yet their sale raises an extraordinary question: when does a revered leader’s legacy become so central to a nation’s identity that it can no longer be treated as private property?
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
Rosendal, designed in 1988 by architect Michael Sutton, is a townhouse scheme in the Highveld vernacular. Its simplicity and human scale reflect lessons Sutton learned while working with Steffan Ahrens early in his career, and which he developed in a series of low-rise projects in Johannesburg, starting in the 1960s.