In the space of slightly more than a month Potchefstroom received a double shock when two of its heritage buildings were lost to fire. It paints a very bleak picture of a city going to ruin, which is not the case. Unfortunately bad news gets much more coverage than...
The Potchefstroom railway station was destroyed by fire during the night of 19 September. This is a mere month after the General’s House, a declared historical building, succumbed to the same fate. The current station building was opened in 1919. It was once regarded...
The humongous explosion of ammonium nitrate in Beirut on 4 August 2020 resonates with Potchefstroom, which had its own ammonia explosion in 1973. I wrote an article on it for the centenary supplement of the Potchefstroom Herald in 2008. It is regarded as the biggest...
Opspraakwekkende navorsing wat in die laat sestigerjare by die Potchefstroomse Universiteit gedoen is, het gelei tot ’n revolusionêre benadering in die behandeling van hartpasiënte. Ongelukkig is dié navorsing oorskadu deur die wêreldnuus van die eerste...
Being connected is arguably the most imported reason while the world still keeps functioning at this time of Covid-19. After South Africa went into lockdown on 27 March cell phones and computers were the only ways to stay in contact – and helped many to stay safe and...
Een van die gevolge van die Coronavirus-pandemie, is die grootskaalse staking van passasiersvlugte. Selfs in Potchefstroom, wat nou nie eintlik ’n lugvaart-brandpunt is nie, is die lug stiller as voorheen. Die paar vliegtuie wat deesdae hier land en opstyg lok...
Met die stilte van die afgelope paar dae, hoor ’n mens waarskynlik die enigste werkende kerkhorlosie met klokke in Potchefstroom, dié van die Gereformeerde Kerk (GK) Potchefstroom Die Bult, kilometers ver. Dié horlosie en klokke het ’n storie met talle kinkels en...
’n Loopbaan van ’n paar dekades in ’n beroep is vir die meeste ’n prestasie. Nardus Conradie (86), bekende argitek van Potchefstroom, beoefen sy beroep meer as twee keer langer, ’n allemintige 62 jaar! Sedert 1961 is hy in Potchefstroom, maar sy ontwerpe is ook te...
Providing electric power to Potchefstroom has never been an easy matter. Just like today an economic slump, disagreements and failing equipment had an influence on supplying electricity to Potchefstroom since even more than a decade before it became available for the...