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[ 15/09/2026 ] The Night the Helderberg Fell History of the Helderberg
[ 14/09/2026 ] The Mountain They Saved: The Helderberg Nature Reserve History of the Helderberg
[ 13/09/2026 ] The Men Who Came Home: The MOTHS of Somerset West History of the Helderberg
[ 12/09/2026 ] Circles, Suites and Sizzling Grills: A Century on the Beachfront History of the Helderberg
[ 11/09/2026 ] Nails by Weight: The Strand Ko-op History of the Helderberg

History of the Helderberg

The Night the Helderberg Fell

STORY 65 Featured image: South African Airways Boeing 747-200BM. This aircraft crashed on 28 November 1987. The aircraft that fell into the Indian Ocean on 28 November 1987 was named after this mountain. That is ...read more
History of the Helderberg

The Mountain They Saved: The Helderberg Nature Reserve

STORY 64 The Helderberg Nature Reserve did not just appear. Nobody in government woke up one morning and decided a nature reserve would be nice. It was argued for, campaigned for, pushed through bureaucratic resistance ...read more
History of the Helderberg

The Men Who Came Home: The MOTHS of Somerset West

STORY 63 When the Second World War ended in 1945, the ships and trains and military trucks began bringing South Africans home. They came from the deserts of North Africa, from the mountains of Italy, ...read more
History of the Helderberg

Circles, Suites and Sizzling Grills: A Century on the Beachfront

STORY 62 Every seaside town needs a place to arrive, a place to sleep and a place to eat and Strand built all three the same slow, improvised way it built everything else. Beach Road ...read more
History of the Helderberg

Nails by Weight: The Strand Ko-op

STORY 61 Before it was a place where you could get a milkshake and a plate of pancakes, before it became the general dealer that stocked everything a household could need in one building, the ...read more

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