Port Alfred Tourism:
082 866 8873; 0466 241 235;
e-mail: tourism@ndlambe.co.za
Wild Coast
Wild Coast Meander:
043 743 6181; 083 260 5588
www.wildcoastholidays.co.za;
e-mail: meross@iafrica.com
South Coast
South Coast Tourism:
039 682 7944: 083 344 1437;
e-mail: margate@venturenet.co.za
THE READING ROOM –
Suggested Literature on the SA Coastline
Works Quoted From
• Baai van Diamante Pieter Coetzer (Nasionale Boekdrukkery, 1997)
• Glamour of Prospecting, The Fred C Cornell (David Philip, 1986)
• History of Copper Mining in Namaqualand, A John M Smallberger (Scholtz Trust, 1975)
• Fortune through my Fingers, A Jack Carstens (Howard Timmins, 1962)
• Discovering Southern Africa TV Bulpin (Self-published, 1970)
• Fishermen of the Cape Frank Robb and Bruce Franck (Longman, Penguin SA, 1975)
• Fishing for Fortunes Robin Lees (Purnell, 1969)
• History of the Stephan Family of the Western Cape, A Eric Rosenthal (unpublished, 1955)
• Hilda’s Diary of a Cape Housekeeper Hildagonda J Duckitt (MacMillan SA, 1978)
• Labour, Capital and the State in the St Helena Fisheries 1856-1956 Lance van Sittert (UCT dissertation)
• Eccentric South Africa Pat Hopkins (Zebra, 2001)
• Tavern of the Seas Lawrence G Green (Howard Timmins, 1947)
• South African Beachcombers Lawrence G Green (Howard Timmins, 1958)
• Thunder on the Blaauwberg Lawrence G Green (Howard Timmins, 1966)
• On Wings of Fire Lawrence G Green (Howard Timmins, 1967)
• The False Bay Story Jose Burman (Human and Rousseau, 1977)
• Historical Simon’s Town Edited by BB Brock and BG Brock with the collaboration of HC Willis for the Simon’s Town Historical Society, (AA Balkema, 1976). Excerpt from ‘Whaling in False Bay’ Abdullah Moses – courtesy of Simon’s Town Museum.
• To Catch a Whale Terence Wise (Geoffrey Bles Publishers, 1970)
• Dawn at Dyer Jan Fourie (Self-published, 2002)
• The People of De Hoop Nature Reserve Anne and Mike Scott of the Overberg Conservation Services (undated)
• Camp Life and Sport in South Africa TJ Lucas (Africana Book Society, Johannesburg, 1975)
• Frontiers Noel Mostert (Pimlico, 1993)
• The Dead Will Arise Jeff Peires (Jonathan Ball, 2003)
• A Fish Caught in Time Samantha Weinberg (Fourth Estate, 2000)
Further Reading
• In the Company of Diamonds Peter Carstens (Ohio University Press, 2001)
• Overberg Odyssey – People, Roads and Early Days Edmund H Burrows (Self-published, 1994)
• The Overberg – Historical Anecdotes SJ du Toit (Self-published, 2005)
• Swept by Wind & Wave WL Speight (Howard Timmins, undated)
• Village of the Sea – Story of Hermanus Arderne Tredgold (Human & Rousseau, 1965)
• Bay Between the Mountains Arderne Tredgold (Human & Rousseau, 1985)
• The Absolute Border Alan Jefferies (Self-published, 2001)
• Our Coast for Life Edited by Karey Evett (Project Co-ordination, undated)
• Paradise Under Pressure Alan Mountain (Southern Books, 1990)
• The Caliban Shore – The Fate of the Grosvenor Castaways Stephen Taylor (Faber & Faber, 2004)
• Oceans of Life off Southern Africa Edited by Andrew Payne and Robert Crawford (Vlaeberg, 1989)
• Currents of Contrast Life in Southern Africa’s Two Oceans Thomas Peschak (Struik, 2005)
• Old Four Legs JLB Smith (Longmans, Green & Co, 1956)
• The Truth in Masquerade Jane Meiring (Juta, undated)
GLOSSARY
abaKwetha – young black males undergoing initiation
Aloe pillansi – an endangered bush aloe
bakkie – a van
braai – a barbecue
bokkoms – dried fish
dassie – a rock hyrax
dikkop – a bird
droster – a runaway slave
frikkadel – meat ball
fynbos – scrub-like vegetation, part of the Cape Floral Kingdom
harder – a type of fish
hotnotsvis – a type of fish
IDB – illicit diamond buying
induna – a local traditional leader
kwaito – township music
kabeljou – cob
kloof – a ravine or chasm
matjeshuis – a small dwelling constructed from reed ‘mats’
melkbos – milk bush
rooibos – red bush, from which a tea is produced
sandveld – a rare type of fynbos
smouse – travelling peddlers
schlentering – crooked dealings
shukka – tartan tribal cloth
sjambok – a heavy whip
smoorsnoek – fish stew
Strandlopers – ancient beach-combing community
skoroskoro – a wreck
tsatkes – bits and pieces, memorabilia
umngqusho – a dish of maize kernels and beans
vetkoek – deep-fried dough balls
witblits – ‘white lightning’: strong alcoholic spirit
First published in 2006 by Struik Publishers
(a division of New Holland Publishing (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd)
This ebook edition published in 2012 by Struik Travel & Heritage
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Copyright © 2006, 2012 in published edition: Struik Travel & Heritage
Copyright © 2006, 2012 in text: Chris Marais and Julienne du Toit
Copyright © 2006, 2012 in photographs and map: Chris Marais,
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