Mixael presents
BravoBrava celebrates
Heritage Day, this coming Monday, 24 September, by interviewing
Personality of the Week,
David Hart, formal Manager of the
National Inventory at the South African Heritage Resources Agency (
SAHRA/National Monuments Council).
David, who has been with
SAHRA for fourteen years, was born in Zimbabwe, schooled in Malawi and South Africa and obtained his
BA(Hons) Architectural History from the
University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
He also holds qualifications in Project Management (
UCT), People Management (
Stellenbosch University) and Advanced level MS Access.
Listeners may participate in our discussions by adding interesting viewpoints and comments. Telephone lines will open at about 10:30 pm – and, the number to call is 089 110 2003. Remember, we love you and would really like to hear from you! 
Leading tonight's discussion about
South Africa's national heritage and the importance of its conservation, is
Krynauw Nel, Pr. Arch, Chief Executive of Krynauw Nel Associates (Pty) Ltd who graduated from the
University of the Witwa
tersrand, with a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture in 1989. He also received several certificates of merit, particularly in his major subjects of “H
istory of Architecture” and “Architectural Theory and Design”. He completed his first residential projects while still a student and spent a year travelling the Middle East, Europe and America.
In 1987 he completed a practical year with an architectural firm in London, specializing in upmarket residential work in areas such as Little Venice, Chelsea and Mayfair. He later formed a close association and collaborated with legendary British interior designer
David Hicks, son-in-law of Lord Louis Mountbatten, for several years. Joint projects included work in Portugal, Cape Town and the Natal Midlands. After graduating, he spent a year with a commercial practice in Pretoria before setting up his own practice in 1994.
Krynauw’s work has been widely published and virtually every magazine, dealing with particularly residential design, has featured some of his projects. Several programmes on television have also featured projects by
Krynauw.
Krynauw Nel is a qualified and registered architect.
Krynauw is also a qualified and registered Estate Agent as well as a registered Sectional Title Practitioner. Membership includes the
South African Council for Architects,
Institute for the South African Architects, and
Council for Estate Agents. He is currently working towards completing a second degree with rivate Law, Psychology and Latin as majors.
Krynauw’s practice has executed literally hundreds of homes across the country ranging from the modest to the grand, and from country to city. The practice actively avoids the confines of establishing a set style, preferring to focus on well-designed and detailed buildings.
The practice is also designing a new 5-star hotel on
Poivre Island, Seychelles.
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Architect Herbert Prins, M.Arch(Cons); B.Arch; Dip T P;ARIBA; MIA;Arch SA, read architecture at the University of the Orange Free State and at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He obtained a Diploma in Town Planning, (1973) and Master of Architecture (Conservation) (1990).
At present he runs his own architectural practice, specialising in heritage conservation and active in community affairs, as well as heritage conservation bodies.
Recent practice includes the design of the temporary structure erected on Strydom Square, Pretoria for the inauguration banquet of President Thabo Mbeki.
He has been heritage consultant on numerous South African architectural conservation projects, especially in the renewal of Johannesburg's City Centre and adjacent areas.
Member of the Gauteng Provincial Heritage Resources Council (PHRAG); 2002 to 2006. Chairperson of various heritage committees including: The Witwatersrand Branch of the Simon van der Stel Foundation (now Egoli Heritage Foundation)The Panel of Assessors appointed by the NMC to advise on existing conservation legislation; changes to the Act and management of heritage resources in South Africa. The Witwatersrand Heritage Trust - the umbrella organisation for heritage conservation on the Witwatersrand (1980 to its demise in 2000): Member of the Committee 1980-1990. Chairperson 1990-2000). Member of the committee of the Johannesburg Heritage Trust from its inception in about 2000 to present.
Member of the Executive Committee of the Johannesburg Heritage Trust and Vice Chairman.
Herbert has received many awards during his long career amongst other the Gold Medal of Distinction of the South African Institute of Architects and the Gold Medal of the Simon Van der Stel Foundation (now Heritage South Africa).
Flo Bird, became involved in Residents Association work in 1973 with the rezoning of Parktown to offices. Battles against the freeways M3, M6 etc. followed, and in 1982 she started doing tours of Parktown. This proved popular and grew into the Parktown and Westcliff Heritage Trust in an effort to preserve the heritage of the old homes and lovely gardens.
Flo is Jo’burg born and bred. She attended Parkview Junior, Parkview Senior (interrupted by 3 very happy years in Lourenco Marques) Parktown Girls High School, the University of the Witwatersrand (WITS) and Johannesburg College of Education(JCE).
Her grandparents were Johannesburg Pioneers (i.e. they came here before 1900) and her father gave her a strong sense of history. She served on the National Monuments Council for 10 years and have been active on heritage matters both in Parktown and Johannesburg. 
Flo has been married for 43 years to a wonderfully supportive husband, John Bird. They have 3 sons and 7 grandchildren.
Gillian Condy was born in 1952 in Kenya and educated in Uganda and England. She trained as a scientific illustrator and received a Masters Degree from the Royal Collage of Art in London. She worked for four years in Botswana before taking up the post as resident botanical artist with SANBI at the National Herbarium in Pretoria, where she has been for over twenty years. She has designed fourteen sets of stamps for Botswana, two for Bophuthatswana and the set of Clivia stamps for South Africa (released in September, 2006). Gillian is also a founder member and past president of the Botanical Artists Association of Southern Africa (BAASA).
Gillian was a major contributor to the biographical section of Peeling Back The Petals: South African Botanical Art and has also illustrated two books: Geophytic Pelargoniums and Grass Aloes in the South African Veld. The latter features two of South Africa's most eminent botanical artists, of whom Gillian is one. Three paintings presented in this book and exhibited at the Kirstenbosch Biennale Botanical Art Exhibition in 2004 won Gold Medals - for the botanical artist this book has considerable interest, as each of the plants painted by Gillian is done with scientific accuracy in its natural habitat and immediate surroundings. Four pages of the book, with three A4 size paintings, explain how Gillian progressed her work to the final product.
The artist has received a number of awards: The London Linnaean Society's Jill Smythies Award, the Cynthia Letty Medal of the Botanical Society of South Africa, seven Gold- and three Silver Medals from the Royal Horticultural Society in London and two Gold- and two Silver Medals at the Kirstenbosch Biennale.
The Wine & Art Route is a 4 km stretch of our South African Heritage along Paarl’s Main Road. Cur
ator, Johann du Plessis talks to us from the Rock in Paarl.
Born 1953, Frankfort, Free State Province, South Africa. Graduated with BA (FA) and (HED) from the University of the Free State in 1980. Du Plessis has exhibited widely both locally and abroad (Canada, Monaco, Spain and the U.K). He is represented in local and overseas private-, public- and corporate collections. Du Plessis has received numerous awards, including the FNB Art Competition, 1987 (overall winner); the 2nd prize at the 5th International Miniature Art Exhibition in Toronto, Canada; a merit award at the 15th Grand Prix International D’art Contemporain, Monaco. He was a finalist for the FNB Vita Art Now Award in 1995 as well as the Brett Kebble Art Awards in 2003.
Du Plessis has been involved in art education since 1981. He has been teaching / lecturing at Eunice Girls High, Bloemfontein, the Johannesburg Art, Ballet, Drama and Music School, Damelin-Eden Art Academy where he was Head of Department, Vice-Principal, and Principal. Du Plessis was examiner for Graphic Art Gauteng, till 2004. In 2005 he was co-founder and editor of CONTEMPO art & design magazine and is currently the curator / coordinator for Visual Art at the CULTIVARIA Festival 2007. He lives and works in Paarl, Western Cape, where he is a part-time lecturer at Boland College.
Du Plessis specializes in Graphic art (drawing, printmaking and collage). Traces of Dadaism, Minimalism, Formalism, Pop Art, Post- Modernism, Deconstructivism, * ”Neo-Pop, Neo-Confucianism or Neo-Claustrophobism”, can be found in his work.
in 1997.
in 1997.
On 26 & 27 September at 20:00 he will conduct his latest composition, The Armed Man in Johanesburg. The Armed Man: A Mass For Peace is the result of a special millennial commission from the Royal Armouries and the latest in a six century old tradition of "Armed Man" masses that take the fifteenth century French song "L'Homme Armé" as their starting point.
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