Paulet Street, Somerset East Story

This blog is about the street I was born in: Paulet Street, Somerset East, Eastern Cape, South Africa. I am looking for your stories and pictures, both past and present, so that we can bring this street back to life again in the book I intend to publish.

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Location: Sedgefield, Southern Cape, South Africa

We are the authors of the Cape Commando Series - a series of books dealing with the South African War in the Cape Colony. Taffy, who obtained her doctorate from Stellenbosch University in 2005 with a thesis entitled "The Cape Rebel of the South African War", is the writer, while David does the editing and marketting. We also write other non-fiction books. David is the Chairman of the Simon van der Stel Foundation: Southern Cape Branch, and Taffy is the Secretary.

18 June 2006

Another Profile


To do the Paulet Street project justice I give you another profile;
My husband David, author of Karoo Wildflower Guide No 6, is a noted conservationist and now that we have left the Karoo where we farmed on Layton in the Beaufort West district for 34 years, he calls the whole Karoo his farm. He has always supported all my projects and enthusiasms, and has been my Commandant, my agterryer, and my sub-editor who tinkles my text so that it runs smoothly. We have published four books in the Cape Commando series on the South African War, and are not yet finished. He has always been a leader in the community from those early years when he started two farm schools in his twenties. Today he is Chairman of the Sedgefield Police Form, a forum that works.

posted by Taffy and David Shearing | 4:05 pm

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