Franschhoek Memories - GWEN JENNINGS

Franschhoek Memories - GWEN JENNINGS

Preface

This book is a record of the past, the past of the author an the many people who shared with her their own recollections. Franschhoek is , for some, now a moneyed and sophisticated neighbourhood. For other, it is as it has always been. There is now way to judge what other might say of what ons has remembered.

Thomas Macaulay, a historian of great repute in a bygone age, likened history to a board and strong river carrying everything along in its relentless flow. Here, forests. bridges and nations are being washed away. There, bodies from sieges, epidemics and earthquakes bob along with it debris of mighty civilisations. Like ships in the river were the pagans, Moors, British traders and others of every kind. .....