Being of 1820 Settler Stock, the year 2020 looms large in my mind. The bicentennial represents a time when our family can reflect and rejoice on our time in South Africa and how much that hardy band of Settlers have contributed to South Africa’s development. Will any form of large scale celebration merely bring opprobrium to those celebrating it or will it bring mutual rejoicing as everybody shares in the commemoration? I fear the latter response.
Main picture: The Campanile was constructed between 1920 & 1922 in order to commemorate the arrival of the 1820 Settlers a centuary before