Message from the Chairman: Mike BosazzaI don’t think anyone can say that the last year has been easy.  And the one before that was probably worse, but now we are looking ahead and at the time of writing there is some hope that the latest variant, Omicron, is not as…

A Personal Tribute - R Adm Chris Bennett (Ret)I was approached to get involved with the Naval Heritage Trust when Digest no 4 was ready to be published and the Trust needed some sponsorship to fund the printing. The most famous South African in the Royal Navy was Sir Neville…

Chairman's Annual Report 20212020 will surely go down as one of the strangest years in history.  When lockdown started in March, I didn’t think that it would drag on for months and change our lives so much.  Suddenly we were confined to our homes, and we had to learn to communicate…

Message from the Chairman: Mike BosazzaIf we ever took our heritage for granted before, the recent fire which destroyed Mostert’s Mill, de Meule, the Rhodes Memorial Restaurant and so much of the Jagger Reading Room at UCT, brought home to us how fragile our artefacts are.  Many of the collections…

Message from the ChairmanIn 1999 we were led to believe that disaster would strike at midnight and that Y2K would change everything.  It seems that the doomsayers were twenty years too early and that it was 2020 (not 2000) that would change the way we live.Now we are firmly into…