At the Fireside - Volume 1
True South African Stories
Published on 6. March 2013
300 pages
978-1-86842-579-2 (ISBN)
Description
At the Fireside was born out of the need to preserve, retell and rekindle some of the stories of events and lives that have shaped and coloured South Africa.
This book recalls our history and enables the reader to relive the stories of our sometimes forgotten past. These are tales of bravery and honour, greed and failure, hope and despair, but ultimately the stories are of real people who went beyond the expected and of events that surpassed the ordinary.
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Person
Roger Webster, an itinerant researcher of South Africa's past, compiles and writes stories about South Africa's histories, which are broadcast on radio as the popular 'Fireside Chats'. The demands from his listenership are at last met with this, the first published selection of his favourite tails.
Content
- Intro
- Cover
- Description
- Title Page
- Foreword
- Fireside chats
- The story of Ernst Luchtenstein
- The Emperor of North America
- Rachel de Beer
- The Homeward Bound
- The Natal Native Contingent
- The SS Mendi
- Women's roles in Pilgrim's Rest
- Thomas Burgers
- The story of Dina Chambers
- The King of the Hottentots
- Alfred Aylward, the Lydenburg Volunteers and the Gunn of Gunn
- Scotty Smith
- The Kariega News
- The wreck of the St. John and the St. Jerome
- The footprint in Mpumalanga
- Modjadji
- 'Isivavani'
- The wreck of the Doddingtong
- The legend of Hendrick Schoeman
- The Adam Kok trek
- Prince Louis Napoleon
- The first Cape Slave Revolt
- Deserted towns - Marabastad
- Willem Prinsloo - the relctant farm seller
- Sekhukhune's Treasure
- The quiet recluse
- Tembe - the dry-land steamer
- Of doctors and discoveries - Dr Atherstone
- John Hepke and the silver mine
- The Malmani goldfields
- The 'towenaar' of Humansdorp
- The strange Ohrigstad phenomena
- Steinacker's Horse
- The Battle of Bronkhorstspruit
- The story of Sarah Heckford
- The Po people
- Mantatisi - the African Boadicea
- Sir John Swinburne
- The flight of the Herero
- The search for Utopia
- The First Frontier War
- The story of Maria Oosthuizen
- The Adelaide Dutch Reformed Church
- Bibliography
- Copyright Page
