The Helderburger

History of the Helderberg

The Helderberg at the Movies: The Landscape as Film Set

STORY 111 landscape this dramatic was always going to end up on film. The question was never whether. The question was always how, in whose story and what the mountain and the sea would be ...read more
History of the Helderberg

The December Lights: Somerset West at Christmas

STORY 110 Every December, something happens to Main Road in Somerset West that has been happening for longer than most residents can remember and that draws people from across the country who make it a ...read more
History of the Helderberg

The Night the Mountains Moved, far from the Helderberg

STORY 109 The earthquake that struck on the night of 29 September 1969 did not announce itself. At two minutes past ten on a quiet spring evening, houses throughout the Western Cape simply began to ...read more
History of the Helderberg

Where Travellers Slept & the Last Rounds: from Ox Wagon to Disco Balls

STORY 108 Featured image: Gordonia Hotel Gordon’s Bay 1923 The Helderberg has always needed somewhere for visitors to sleep that was not a tent. Before there were apartment blocks and shopping centres along our coast, ...read more
History of the Helderberg

A Bicycle, a Dog and the Freedom of the Open Road

STORY 107 Before the internet. Before the PlayStation. Before parents organised playdates and supervised every moment of their children’s lives in the anxious, scheduled way that became standard in later decades. Before all of that, ...read more

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