William Hofmeyr Craib was born in Somerset East in 1895, into a family where education was looked upon, not as a right but a privilege,...

Up to 1880, Somerset East only two small private schools catered for the education of girls, while boys were catered for by Gill College....

Walter Battiss was born in Somerset East on 6 January 1906. The family name was well known, because Battiss’ paternal great-grandfather...