A Bibliography of Published Articles by Colin Graham Botha
by Anne Lehmkuhl
to complement the article in genesis July 2004
(this bibliography is not exhaustive)
1796-1936. Groote Schuur Mill; South African Baker and Miller, March 1936
276 years ago to-day; Cape Times, 06 Apr 1928
300 Years: Van Riebeeck Festival; published by Cilliers de Wet, Johannesburg, 1950
A brief guide to the various classes of documents in the Cape Archives for the period 1652-1806; printed by Cape Times, Cape Town, 1918
A brief historical note on Hemel and Aarde; South African Journal of Science 27, 1930, p. 576
A Cape funeral in 1751; Cape Argus, 16 Jul 1913
A central road board at work in 1844; Cape Times, 28 May 1926
A Central Road Board: Activities in 1847; Cape Times, 23 Jul 1926
A central road board: eighty years ago: a boom in bridge building; Cape Times, 04 Jun 1926
A century of gas; Cape Times, 08 Oct 1945
A European’s Life among the Kaffirs in the seventeenth century; Cape Times, 24 Sept 1927
A European's life among the Kaffirs in the seventeenth century; Cape Times, 26 Oct 1927
A great heritage: Groote Schuur; South African Woman's Magazine, Mar 1927
A holiday on wheels; Cape Times, 08 Oct 1926
A naval action in Table Bay; Cape Times, 06 Nov 1926
A pirate who visited South Africa; Cape Times Supplement, 24 Dec 1927
A tombstone of two centuries ago; Cape Times, 11 Jun 1921
A voyage to Europe in 1751; The Outspan, 03 May 1935
A voyage to the Cape in 1798; Cape Times, 27 Jul 1917
A wedding in bygone days; Cape Argus, Dec 1922
Adderley street sign. Relic of old Cape Town in museum; Cape Times, 31 Mar 1931
Advertising over 100 years; Cape Times, 21 Oct 1932
Agriculture at the Cape; Cape Times, 07 Jul 1928
Along the Peninsula Roads; Cape Times, 21 Aug 1925
An 18th century manuscript on agricultural improvement at the Cape; South African Journal of Science 27, 1930, pp. 673-575
An eighteenth century Law Library; South African Law Journal, 52. 1935, pp. 169-180
An eighteenth century romance of the Cape; Cape Times, 03 Apr 1926
An exiled prince at the Cape; The Outspan, 17 Aug 1934
An old Cape family. A South African fighting under Wellington; Cape Times, 23 Jul 1916
An old cry - South Africa's first hard roads; Cape Times, 21 Sept 1928
Another early reformer of Cape affairs; The Outspan, 13 Jul 1934
Archival problems in South Africa; South African Journal of Science 18 (3-4), 1922
Archives and records; Official Year Book of South Africa 8, 1925-1927
Archives of the Cape of Good Hope; Official Yearbook of South Africa, 7, l 925, pp. s-6
Ascent of Table Mountain in 1665; Cape Times, 29 Jan 1927
Beginnings of Tulbagh; Cape Times, 07 Apr 1928
Brethern of the coast - the story of an encounter with a pirate in South African waters; The Outspan, 14 Jul 1933
Brethern of the Coast (From the story of Guillaume Chenut); Cape Times, 04 Aug 1926
Bygone busses - road transportation services in pre-railway days; Cape Times, 29 Nov 1929
Callings and business of Cape Town; Cape Times, 24 Apr 1926
Cape Town in the old days; Cape Times, 22 Nov 1927
Cape Town's early industries, ninety years ago; Cape Times, 10 Apr 1926
Capital Punishment at the Cape; Cape Times, 31 Jul 1926
Castle Cup (F.E.Fowle); The Castle, Cape Town, 1919
Christmas and New Year in old Cape Town; Cape Times Week-end Magazine, 21 Dec 1946
Christmas and New Year: of other days; Cape Times supplement, 24 Dec 1927
Christmas in Cape Town 100 years ago; Cape Times, 17 Dec 1929
Civil Service hours of long ago; The Service, Jan 1920
Criminal procedure at the Cape during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; South African Law Journal 32, Nov 1915
Dassen Island in the early days; Cape Times, 22 Aug 1928
De Hugenoten in Zuid-Afrika; De Kerkbode, 18 Oct 1917
Die Kaapse Hugenote; published by Nasionale Pers, Cape Town, 1939
Die ou Kaapse Parlement; Suid-Afrika, Oct 1954
Die wonings van ons voor-ouders; Oudtshoorn Courant, 5 Dec 1912
Do opportunities recur?; The Outspan, 10 Feb 1928
Dr.Samuel Bailey, the Cape's hospital Pioneer; Cape Times, 30 Apr 1936
Du Toit's Kloof Pass. Early Road-making schemes which failed; Cape Times, 15 Nov 1929
Early agricultural societies at the Cape of Good Hope; Province Agricultural Society, Mar 1922
Early business methods; Cape Times, 28 Jul 1928
Early Cape Land tenure; South African Law Journal 36, May-Aug 1919, pp.149-160, 225-233
Early Cape Laws - rigid enactments of Dutch East India Company; Cape Times, 3 Dec 1917
Early Cape matrimonial law; South African Law Journal 31, Aug 1914
Early Civil Service Commissions; The Public Servants Magazine, Dec 1924
Early coaching days. Road transportation services of a century ago; Cape Times, 26 Feb 1932
Early defence system in South Africa; The Nongqai, Aug.1944, pp. 899-901
Early forms of punishment; Cape Argus, 14 Oct 1922
Early history of mining in South Africa; Official Yearbook of South Africa 15, 1934, pp. 28-30
Early history of St.Helena; Cape Times, 30 Jun 1928
Early history of the Cape Province as illustrated by Dutch Place names; South African Journal of Science 19, Dec 1922, pp.431-438
Early inferior courts of justice at the Cape; South African Law Journal 38, Nov 1921, pp.406-423
Early influence of the English Law upon the Roman Dutch Law in South Africa; South African Law Journal 40, 1923, pp.396-406
Early inquests and post-mortems at the Cape 1652-1825; South African Medical Record 14 (4), Feb 1916
Early juvenile affairs in South Africa; The Careers Guide, Aug 1934
Early legal practitioners of the Cape Colony; South African Law Journal (41), 1924, pp.255-262
Early Place names of the Cape; Cape Times, 29 May 1926
Early postal service; Cape Times, 30 Dec 1927
Early Postal system in South Africa; Cape Times, 19 Mar 1927
Early racing at the Cape; Cape Times, 25 Jun 1927
Early road administration at the Cape in Official Yearbook of South Africa 14, 1933, pp. 11-14 Early Road communications; Official Yearbook of South Africa 11, 1930, pp.747-748
Early road laws - parking problems 120 years ago; Cape Times, 05 Sept 1930
Early Road making in South Africa; The South Africa Annual, Dec 1934
Early road transport in South Africa; The Outspan, 23 Jun 1937
Early Road-making; Cape Times, 10 Dec 1928
Early settles in the Oudtshoorn district; Oudtshoorn Courant, 21 Dec 1923
Early streets of Cape Town, Cape Times, 08 May 1926 Echoes of the past: an army surgeon's experiences in South Africa; Cape Times, 27 Aug 1927
Eighteenth century farming at the Cape. A treasure from the Union Archives; Cape Times, 07 Mar 1931
Exiled princes at the Cape — Robben Island a convict settlement — the story of Sheikh Joseph; Cape Argus, 23 Sept 1922
Extracts from registers of deaths at the Cape of Good Hope 1795-1815; The Genealogist 29, 1913
Extracts from the register of deaths at the Cape of Good Hope 1816-1826; The Genealogist 32, 1915
Extracts of baptisms at the Cape of Good Hope 1810-1821; The Genealogist 30, 1914
Extracts of marriages at the Cape of Good Hope 1806-1821; The Genealogist 30, 1914
Familiewapen; Die Huisgenoot, 12 Apr 1946
Famous shipwrecks in Table Bay; Cape Argus, 23 Dec 1916
First breakwater and docks in Cape Town; Cape Times, 18 Jan 1947
French Hoek Pass - we want good roads - a century-old cry; Cape Times, 04 Oct 1929
From sail to steam; Cape Times Week-end Magazine, Children's Supplement, 23 Nov 1946
Further Monumental inscriptions at the Cape of Good Hope; Genealogist's Magazine 11 (1), Mar 1951
Genealogical records of the Province of the Cape of Good Hope; Genealogist's Magazine 10 (4), Dec 1947
Geskiedenis van die drukpers maatskappy Van der Sandt de Villiers & kie; Ons Land, 08 Apr 1930
Gewoontes van ons voorouers; Die Boervrou, Jan 1925
God's acre; Cape Argus, 10 Jul 1913
Hectic new years of the old days; The Outspan, 01 Jan 1937
Historical Research in South Africa, with special reference to the Cape Archives; South African Journal of Science 15 (3), Oct-Dec 1919, pp.177-185
Historical review of the Lodge De Goede Hoop; printed by Citadel Press, Cape Town, 1922
History of place names. When silkworms breed in Spin-street; Cape Times, 01 Feb 1930
History of Robben Island; Cape Times, 01 Sept 1928
Home life in the early days at the Cape; Our Home, 01 Jul 1922
Housing South African Archives: the new building at Bloemfontein; Cape Times, 10 Aug 1927
How Australia got a start - First merino's from the Cape; Cape Times, 29 Nov 1929
How Cape Town became known as the tavern of the seas; The Outspan, 12 Jul 1929
How Graaff-Reinet got its name; Cape Times, 20 Dec 1927
How the Roeland Street Goal came to be built; Cape Times, 13 Aug 1930
Iets oor Ou Kaapstad; Die Boervrou, Jun 1924
In the days of Father Tulbagh; Cape Argus, Xmas No., 1917
In the days of slavery at the Cape; British South Africa Annual, Dec 1933
In the days of slavery; Cape Argus, 18 Nov 1922
In the days of Van Riebeeck; Cape Argus, 06 Apri 1929
In the days of windjammers and shellbacks. A voyage to the Cape in 1798; The Outspan, 20 Dec 1928
Incidents in Cape History; Cape Times, 14 May 1927
Instructions for the Surgeons on the Dutch East Indiamen in the seventeenth century; South African Medical Record 22 (20), 1924, pp. 479-480
Intestate succesion; South African Law Journal 34, May 1917
Jewish pioneers in South Africa. Merchants and traders who helped to open up the country; Cape Times, 21 Sept 1933
John Macadam (maker of modern roads) died 100 years ago; Cape Times, 04 Dec 1936
Jonkheer Gerard Beelaerts van Blokland (1772-1843) Attorney-General at the Cape 1803-1806; South African Law Journal 39 (11), 1922, pp.147-153
Legislation of other days; Cape Times, 23 Oct 1926
Links with St.Helena; Cape Times, 02 Jul 1927
Louis Michel Thibault 1750-1815; Architect Builder and Engineer, Jun 1924
Market places of the Cape; Cape Times, 26 Jun 1926
Mauritius and the Cape; Cape Times, 31 Aug 1946
Medicine in the early days at the Cape; Souvenir brochure of the 37th medical congress at Cape Town, 1945
Michell's Pass; Cape Times, 20 Feb 1925
Old Cape buildings; Cape Times Week-end Magazine, 07 Sept 1946
Old Cape forms and ceremonies; The South African Quarterly, Jun-Aug 1915
Old Cape Town. Where was the passer?; Cape Times, 18 Jan 1947
Old Dutch weights and measures at the Cape; The Outspan, 14 Aug 1936
Ons Monumente; Die Huisgenoot, Jul 1926
Onze voorouders; De Goede Hoop, 01 Jul 1913
Ostentation and extravagance barred; Cape Times, 17 Apr 1926
Ou gewoontes in die Kaap; Die Huisgenoot, 27 Jun 1924
Our Archives; Public Service, May-Dec 1935
Our South Africa Past and Present - Ons Suid-Afrika voorheen en tans. A graphic and entertaining story dealing with men and matters concerning South Africa from its first discovery by the great Portuguese Navigators up to the present day; published by United Tobacco Co. and Cape Times Ltd., Cape Town, 1938
Out of de Mist (Uitenhage); Cape Times, 05 Jan 1928
Outspans; Cape Times, 11 Jun 1926
Pages from the past - old time customs, etc.; South African Railways and Harbours Magazine, Dec 1918
Past and future of Robben Island; Cape Times, 07 Nov 1934
Pirates at the Cape of Good Hope - How the burghers captured Captain Tew; Cape Times, 14 Dec 1929
Place names in the Cape district - their origin and history; printed for the South Afican National Society for the Preservation of places of historical interest, Cape Town, 1917
Place Names in the Cape Province; published by Juta & Co., Cape Town, 1926
Place names of South Africa's Coast; Cape Times, 07 Jun 1930
Pomp and Ceremony at the Cape, early sumptuary Laws; Cape Argus, Xmas Number, 1919
Press gleanings in other days in Cape Times, 15 May 1926 Prices in the eighteenth century; South African Journal of Science 20, 1923, pp.552-554
Public Archives and the Records of the Cape of Good Hope; Official Yearbook of South Africa 10, 1929
Quaint early customs at the Cape; Cape Supplement, April 1936
Records of the Cape of Good Hope 1806-1814; Official Yearbook of South Africa 9, 1926-1927
Road and Rail transport. Wynberg bus competition of ninety years ago; Cape Times, 22 Jan 1931
Roads a century ago, a 1824 report; Cape Times, 02 Apr 1926
Roads and Trekpaths; Cape Times, 2 Jul 1926
Roads in 1848: opening of Michell's Pass and birth of Ceres; Cape Times,
13 Aug 1926 Romance of early place names; Cape Times, 15 Apr 1927
Royal visitors to the Cape; Cape Times Week-end Magazine, 07 Aug 1946
Salvage at the Cape in the early days; Cape Times, 12 Jun 1926
Seereis van Hugenote na die Kaap; Paarl Post, 11 Aug 1939
Severe Punishments, early Criminal records of the Cape; Cape Argus 29 Aug 1925
Sir John Andries Truter, LL.D. 1763-1845, Chief Justice of the Cape of Good Hope; South African Law Journal 35, May 1918
Social Customs in South Africa during the 18th Century; South African Journal of Science (22), 1925, pp. 540-551
Social life in South Africa two centuries ago; South African Lady's Pictorial, Jan 1916
Social Life in the Cape; published by Juta & Co., Cape Town, 1926
Some Early expeditions. Blazing the Trail; Cape Times, 12 Nov 1926
Some early exploring expeditions and travels in South Africa; published by Cape Times, 1916
Some early industries; Cape Times, 08 Jan 1927
Some early landmarks of the Cape; South African Railways and Harbour Magazine, Dec 1927
Some monumental inscriptions at the Cape of Good Hope; Genealogist’s Magazine, 10 (13), Mar 1950
Some Road History; Cape Times, 03 Sept 1926
Some wayside history; Cape Times, 11 Sept 1925
South African coastal place names; Cape Times, 07 Aug 1926
South Africa's first hotels - an interesting historical survey; The Catering Trade's Journal, Jun 1929
South Africa's oldest Export Industry - the history of wine farming at the Cape; Cape Times Annual, Dec 1934
Stellenbosch: glimpses into its early history; Cape Times, 18 Oct 1927
Stellendam: a glance at its early history; Cape Times, 20 Oct 1927
Survivors of an early wreck; Cape Times, 13 Aug 1927
Taking a new look at the Union. Exploration-Settlement-Transport; The
Voter, Aug 1949 The adventures of John Benbow; Cape Times, 17 Dec 1927
The birth of printing in South Africa; Cape Times, 07 Sept 1946
The birth of Somerset-West; Cape Times, 16 Aug 1928
The Canals of Cape Town - early street history; Cape Times, 04 Sept 1926
'The Cape doctor'; Cape Times, 26 Oct 1946
The Cape Hospital Board 1913-1949 with a survey of hospital developments in the Cape Peninsula from early times; published by Blackshaw & Sons, Cape Town, 1950
The Cape Supreme Court; South African Law Journal 49, 1932, pp. 453-461
The Castle of Good Hope; The Nongqai, pp. 643-647, Jun 1944
The Castle of the Cape; Silver Leaves, 1952, pp. 35-39
The Central Road Board 1843-1858. History which is repeating itself to-day; Cape Times, 23 Jan 1931
The century of Sir Lowry's Pass. When waggons were unloaded and goods carried by slaves; Cape Times, 04 Jul 1930
The Civil Service Club 1858-1938; The Club, Cape Town, 1939
The Common and Statute Law at the Cape of Good Hope during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries; South African Law Journal 30, Aug 1913
The construction of Sir Lowry's Pass, Cape Times, 07 May 1926 The Court of Vice-Admiralty; Cape Argus, 14 Sept 1914
The development of printing and newspaper publication in the Union; Official Year Book of South Africa 16, 1934, pp. 32-33
The dispersion of the Stock farmer in the Cape Colony in the eighteenth century; South African Journal of Science 20, 1923, pp.574-580
The early days of Robben Island - rabbit farm and convict settlement; Cape Times, 10 Dec 1930
The early development of South Africa; South African Journal of Science 19, Dec 1922, pp.13-16
The early French refugees brought honour and prosperity to our country; The Outspan, 13 Apr 1945
The early Highways of South Africa; The Outspan, 21 May 1937
The early history of Worcester; Cape Times, 20 Sept 1927
The fascination of old maps; Cape Times, 18 Jan 1936
The Father of the mother city; Cape Argus, 06 Apr 1927
The First Home Guard; Silver Leaves, 1950, pp. 116-117
The first public hospital in South Africa; Health and Medicine, Jun 1946
The first South African to be made a knight; The Outspan, 28 Sept 1934
The flat-roofed house in old Cape Town; Architect, Builder and Engineer, Nov 1921
The founding of Cape Town; Cape Times, 08 Apr 1930
The French refugees and the medical profession at the Cape of Good Hope; South African Medical Record 12 (5), 14 Mar 1914
The French refugees at the Cape; 2nd print, Cape Town, 1921
The French refugees at the Cape; published by Cape Times Ltd, 1919
The grain and wool stores at Mossel and Plettenberg Bay respectively, 1786; George and Knysna Herald, 04 Jun 1919
The Historic Peninsula; British South Africa Annual, Dec 1932
The history of early discovery and exploration in South Africa 1652-1795; Official Yearbook of South Africa, 7, 1925, pp. 11-20
The History of the Castle at The Cape of Good Hope; Lantern 7 (3), Mar 1958, pp. 214-217
The Honourable William Menzies 1795-1850, Senior Judge of the Supreme Court of the Cape of Good Hope; South African Law Journal 33, Nov 1916
The Huguenots in South Africa; Proceeding of the Huguenot Society of London 13 (6), 1929
The Huguenots; Cape Times Week-end Magazine, 13 Apr 1946
The Lutheran Church; Cape Times, 10 Sept 1927
The maker of Dover's powder; an interesting glimpse of early South African History; The Outspan, 30 May 1930
The material available for early South African history; The South African Quarterly, Dec 1919
The medical profession at the Cape during the eighteenth century; South African Medical Record 10 (24), 28 Dec 1912, p.540
The men who trekked; Escom, Dec 1936
The old Order changes; The Headlight, Jun 1930
The Old Supreme Court Building, Cape Town; Lantern II (3), Mar 1962, pp. 32-38
The old windmill - Groote Schuur; South African Miller and Grain Trader, Feb 1935
The origin of Government departments at the Cape; The Service, Jul 1919
The peninsula and Hottentots Holland bartered for 9.12.gd.; Cape Argus, 20 Jan 1923
The Pioneer; Die Staatsamptenaar, Dec 1938
The policing of town and village in the early days at the Cape; The Nongqai, Dec 1915
The preservation of our historical monuments; The Monitor, 15 Mar 1946
The preservation of our National Monuments; South Afrcan Journal of Science 18, Dec 1921, pp.195-196
The preservation of our National Monuments; South African Journal of Science 18, 01-02 Dec 1920
The Public Archives - their value to scientific research; South African Journal of Science (21), 1924, pp. 120-130
The Public Archives of South Africa 1652-1910; published by Cape Times, Cape Town, 1928
The Public Prosecutor of early days; The Nongqai, Sept 1944, pp. 1079-1080
The rise of the tearoom-cafe, a revolution in urban social customs; The Catering Trade's Journal, Jun 1929
The science of Archives in South Africa; South African Journal of Science 34, 1937, pp. 1-17
The smelly old days: when the 'Cape Doctor' was a boon; Cape Times, 16 Jun 1934
The Somerset Hospital celebrates its hundredth birthday; published by Nasionale Handelsdrukkery, Elsiesrivier, 1959
The Supreme Medical Committee 1807; South African Medical Record 13 (6), 27 Mar 1915
The valley of the Huguenots; British South Africa Annual, Dec 1931
The Voortrekkers; Cape Argus, 04 Jun 1927
The wreck of the Stavenisse; Cape Times, 29 Oct 1927
Then and now in the Mother city - Life in old Cape Town; Cape Times Annual, 1932
They had a 'rule of the road' in ox-waggon days; Cape Times Weekend Magazine, 16 Mar 1946
To make one blue frock coat - four guineas; The Outspan, 19 Feb 1937
Tourists of other days; Cape Times, 17 Apr 1925
Travelling in the early days of the Cape; Annual of Mountain Club of South Africa, 1917
Treasure hunting in the old days; The Outspan, 29 Apr 1932
Under the Jolly Roger. Pirates in Table Bay; Cape Times, 04 Sept 1926
Union's six oldest towns - perpetuating names of governors; Cape Times, 26 Jun 1930
Van Riebeeck's Day - landmarks of the 17th century; Cape Times, 06 Apr 1929
Van Riebeeck's Day; Cape Times, 06 Apr 1927
Vicissitudes of Old Supreme Court Building; Cape Argus, 04 Oct 1924
Volunteers of the Nineteenth century; The Nongqai, Oct 1944, pp. 1155-1156
What a South African learns in America; Cape Argus, 26 Apr 1924
When a South African goes to the States; Cape Argus, 12 Apr 1924
When pirates chased their victims into Table Bay; Cape Argus, 20 Dec 1930
When Robinson Crusoe visited South Africa; Radio Week, 22 Mar 1946
Where undertakers hold exhibitions (A South African in the States); Cape Argus, 29 Mar 1924
Who are the six greatest men in South African History?; The Outspan, 30 Dec 1927
Windjammers and Shellbacks at the Cape; British South Africa Annual, Dec 1935
Yo Ho Ho and a bottle of rum; Cape Times, 18 Aug 1928
Zeekoe Vlei. History of a popular resort; Cape Times, 10 Jan 1931
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