THE NEXT TWO MEETINGS TAKE PLACE AS DETAILED BELOW, IN THE DU TOIT ROOM OF THE ATHENAEUM 154 CAMPGROUND RD.NEWLANDS, COMMENCING AT 8 P.M.
THURSDAY 10TH AUGUST 1989
"BREAKER MORANT", a talk by DR. ARTHUR DAVEY, formerly of the History Department, University of Cape Town, and author of a book on the subject issued by the Van Riebeeck Society.
Poet, horseman, soldier .......... murderer?
Lieutenant Harry Morant, an Australian officer serving in South Africa during the Anglo-Boer War, was executed at Pietersburg on 27th February 1902 by a firing party from the Cameron Highlanders. His crime?
Wilful murder of civilians. Yet to this day his guilt remains shrouded in doubt. Killer? Or scapegoat? Since then no Australian soldier has been tried on a capital charge by a British Army Court.
THURSDAY 14TH SEPTEMBER
A SPECIAL, COMMEMORATIVE PROGRAMME TO MARK THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE OUTBREAK OF WORLD WAR TWO
VISITORS ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND
ADVANCE DETAILS:
12th October: "A History of Ceremonial", a talk by Commandant P.M. Grobbelaar, dealing with the Dutch Occupation of the Cape from 1700 to 1795.
9th November: a talk by Committee member Mr Doug Clarke on Richard III
(There is no meeting in December)
PAUL LANGE CHAIRMAN
Telephone nnnnnnn after hours.
VICE-CHAIRMAN: Major Antony Gordon (telephone mmmmmmm after hours)