PROJECTS AND NEWS : WESTERN CAPE

• Statement of Significance :
  Cape Winelands Cultural Landscape
   
• Boschendal Founders Estate
  
  Documents regarding the above:
  
  a)  Annexure A - BIF Permit Committee Submission
  b)  Annexure B - Final Chronology of the BIF
  c)  Annexure C - Boschendal HIA Summary of PP process
  d)  Annexure C - List of Public Meetings
  e)  Archaeology Addendum - AIA RevCom Final Boschendal
   f)  Minutes Boschendal
  g)  Permit Letter
   

• Article in "Die Burger", 14 July 2006 Re: Beverley Crouts-Knipe
  
                
                         

• CAPE WINELANDS CULTURAL LANDSCAPE
  
  Boschendal Farmlands - SAHRA ad hoc Permit Committee decision
  
  Boschendal Farmlands 160306.pdf
  
  Appendix Archaeological Comment.pdf
   

• CEO VISITS EAST FORT, HOUT BAY
  
  On 2 February 2005 the CEO, Mr. Phakamani Buthelezi accompanied Mr. Solayman Ebrahim on a trip to Hout Bay, to visit the East Fort.  This Fort is the most extensive of four VOC period Forts established in Hout Bay during the period 1781-1783.  It followed the construction of West Fort which was established several months earlier and was originally constructed by the French Pondicherry Regiment from the French enclave of the same name south of Madras.
  
  In 1795 following the first British occupation, it was upgraded by General James Craig and permanent garrison buildings added to the existing gun battery and magazine.  It has eight surviving 18 pounder cannon which have been partly restored, proofed and licensed by the Hout Bay and Llandudno Heritage Trust (HBHT) who would like to restore them to full working condition placed on replicas of the original carriages which will mean that the battery will become the oldest battery of original working guns in the world.  Apart from the decaying buildings and walls the immediate views from the site remain as they were 200 years ago providing an historic cultural foreground to a magnificent backdrop of the majestic "Sentinel Peak" and the southern oceans sailed by Dias, Da Gama, Drake and many other early explorers.
  
                  
  Images of Mr. Buthelezi and Mr. Ebrahim with Mr. Dave
  Cowley, trying their hand at being  "gunners".