Zandvlei Trust

ZIMP - History

Have you got any photos or documented history of the Muizenberg / Lakeside / Retreat areas.  It is important we record the oral stories of our area what people remember from the old days.

We need a champion to record these important events / stories / urban legends.

The oldest domestic residential building in South Africa built in 1673, in the Main Road, Muizenberg, known as De Post Huys.

It was built as a watch house over looking False Bay, when the Netherlands controlled the colony and was at war with France and England. The Dutch East India Company set up signalling and defence posts around the south western tip of Africa.


Oral history

These oral interviews are done with the intention of gathering a collective image of life in Lakeside, as remembered by ordinary members of the community.
The interviews are written in the spirit of Walter Benjamin’s caution that: "every image of the past that is not recognised by the present as one of its own concerns threatens to disappear irretrievably".

 


Archival source

Articles and Photographs Interviews Documents Maps updated

A history of the Cape Flats vleis from the Bill Harding blog.

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Zandvlei Trust
Minutes of inaugural meeting March 1988
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Lakeside historical postcards Interview with Crystal Kotze (born Christina Maria Kroukamp) Marina da Gama -

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Tinus de Jongh etching of Kalk Bay and St James 1924 - - -

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Oz Barkers schoolboy photographs from the 1930's - - - -
Andy van der Merwe grew up in this house on Main Road Lakeside - - - -
Zandvlei after the rain in May 1988 - - - -
Aerial photos - - - -

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Old Dutch survey maps of Zandvlei and
the Constantia valley from the 1700's.

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Ground photos - - - -
History of False Bay - - - -
History of The Zandvlei Trust - - - -
Posthuys 1673 - Muizenberg - - - -
Almondbury Restaurant - Lakeside 1987 - - - -
Aviation history - Muizenberg 1919 - - - -
75th postal anniversary at Muizenberg in 1986. - - - 31/05/2016.
A tribute to Evelyn 'Bok' Driver by Andrew Jon Coleman. - - - 31/05/2016
The Imperial Yacht Club - - - -
The Imperial Yacht Club opening criuse of season September 2004. - - - -
See this link to photos of sailing at Zandvlei
in the 1930's.
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The Solomon brothers aviation enterprise Muizenberg 1919. - - - -
Victorian Life at the Cape 1870 - 1900 - - - -
The Towers - Muizenberg 1889 - 1987 - - - -
The Battle of Muizenberg 1795 - - - -

                                                                                                                                             

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