GARDEN ROUTE NEWS - The outstanding successes in sport particularly including that of our swimmers at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, the Springboks' defeat of the All Blacks over the weekend, the Blitz Boks' breathtaking victory over Fiji in the Rugby Sevens and the extraordinary skills and temperament of our Protea cricketers in winning the T20 series against England and Ireland on their home turf.
All this provided timely relief in the last weekend of July for those who have been worn down by the failure of our government on many levels.
In the midst of all this, a local writer believes that a more permanent remedy might just lie in our equally turbulent past: the social formula espoused by the Afrikaners' Calvinistic forbears, the Voortrekkers.
Cuan Elgin presented his theory in book form entitled Return to the Covenant at the Turbine Hotel in Knysna on Saturday 30 July.
The venue chosen for the presentation, on Thesen Island, was designed and decorated by Joy Rea and her husband Jimmy to illuminate its historical function as a source of energy over a period of some 70 years.
Elgin outlined the pattern of his career in tourism which has taken him from exotic locations such as India and to KwaZulu-Natal to document the pattern of destruction in the province.
Author Cuan Elgin chatting to Blyth Thompson (right) from George.
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