Painting Their Way Through SA

What better way to spend a few months from your course in Communication Design than to paint your way through a foreign country.
This is exactly what Thomas Matthaei and Fabian Filss from Munich in Germany are doing in South Africa.
They have been in Rouxville this past week, staying at Catherine Milton’s backpacker lodge in return [...]

Smithfield SAPS Break-Through

in Stock Theft
Smithfield SAPS were tipped off by the community in mid-August that stock thieves believed to have stolen sheep from the farm Deelfontein, in Smithfield district were workers on the farm. Responding to the information, police moved in on the farm but found it deserted. Searching the farm, they found a slaughtered sheep hanging [...]

Bishop Paget – What a Man! says Geoff Montgomery

Having been a member of the Anglican Church all my life, I naturally met and knew many of our Bishops  Quite the most interesting and stimulating of them  all, was Edward Paget, Bishop of Mashonaland, and subsequently archbishop of Central Africa. Behold him now, holding forth to a congregation of young confirmation candidates, location:
Avondale Parish [...]

Return to Nigeria as told by Cecil Webber

In August 1974 I returned to South Africa with my family after working in Nigeria as a missionary for 14 years. Our two daughters had done their schooling there and our son had been born there and was in primary school when we came back to South Africa.
In order to make the story of our [...]

Smithfield weer in die Nuus so sê Linda Retief

Smithfield en die kunstenaars van die dorp het in die winter uitgawe van Top Spots, ’n luukse reis- en verblyf tydskrif, goeie blootstelling gekry.
Die redakteur en eienaar van dié tydskrif, Charles Burman en sy gesin, het ’n paar maande gelede vir twee dae by Pula House tuis gegaan.
Hulle het die kunstenaars by hulle huise besoek [...]

Die Verval van Edenburg

Mnr. Basil Alexander LPW en Rdl. Lena Hagemann het Edenburg besoek om eerstehands die verval van die dorp te aanskou
Die dak van die Biblioteek is gedurende Januarie 2008 beskadig deur ‘n swaar voertuig wat daarin vasgery het.  As gevolg daarvan reën dit daar in en mure, vloere en boeke is beskadig met geen reaksie van [...]

Letters

Beste Smiffie
’n Karaktuur skilder in ons midde!
Baie dankie Zaza vir die pragtige dansende skapies wat oral hul verskyning gemaak het by die BibberChill Fees met daardie kenmerkende sierskrif wat by die ingang op die rooi karavaan, en op die Genot Grot-bord gepryk het! Asook die mooi duidelike aanwysings na die kunsuitstalling in die Red Barn [...]

It’s Official – He’s Leaving

The news that Superintendent Willem Bekeer, Station Commander of the Smithfield Police Station, is being transferred only two years after being appointed to the post will not be well received locally. There is a widely-held belief that he has achieved a great deal in improving police efficiency in Smithfield and the surrounding areas.
The area’s senior [...]