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This is a riveting and intellectually ambitious family history: the story of the Posel family, and most particularly the paternal grandparents of the author, Maurice and Erna Posel, written by sociologist and historian Deborah Posel.

 

BLUE PLAQUES

While motor cars had made their appearance on the dusty roads of Johannesburg by 1906, the year of the Club’s opening, they were still relatively rate, and horse-drawn vehicles and horse-back were the more prevalent forms of transport for members.