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GENESIS ISSUE 4 OF 2024 (35 PAGES)

A WWII FAMILY AFFAIR
By Pat Bauer
This story is about a couple who were uniformed members of the South African forces during World War II (1939–1945) who served for just about the duration of the war. Jack Withey (1905–1981) and Phyllis Merriman van der Byl (1911–1997)

VICTORIA FALLS CENOTAPH
By SJ de Klerk
The Northern Rhodesia Great War Memorial, just inside the entrance to the Victoria Falls World Heritage Site at Livingstone, Zambia, was erected in 1922 to ‘The Memory of Northern Rhodesians who gave their lives for the Empire in the Great War 1914–1918

DOWN IN THE WOODS
By David Slingsby
The preservation of a kramat and a crypt during a building project at St Cyprians School in Cape Town. There was a burial site there ‒ the ruins of a ‘Dutch’ grave discovered beneath the undergrowth.. It was thought it could possibly be a structure used either by the Versfeld or Van Breda families who had farmed at Oranjezicht, the original farm.

HOEKOM NIE GETROUD? – DIE GEHEIM VAN THOMAS WALKER GRAHAM
Deur Stoffel Willemse
Gedurende die tweede Anglo-Boereoorlog het daar verskeie Britse soldate na die suidpunt van Afrika gekom om nooit weer terug te keer na hul huise in Engeland nie. Een so ‘n soldaat,  was Thomas Walker Graham.

HENRY FRANCIS FYNN - PROPRIETOR OF NATAL 
By Gary Hillman
For two decades of his life, Morris Fynn fights for recognition as a Zulu chief, and to retain the tribal land stripped from the Fynns in 1954

REQUESTS FOR ASSISTANCE
Personal information required to compile the Lewis family tree will remain confidential in terms of the POPI act.

THE BOOKSHELF | DIE BOEKRAK
Evidence Explained: Citing History from Artifacts to Cyberspace