WHO WE ARE - Portfolio Of Lecturers
BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES
Phillippa Cheifitz Highly respected author, food editor for Femina magazine and consultant editor for Taste Magazine. She has published numerous best selling cookbooks including Day to Day, Seasons, Cape Town Food, The Monday to Sunday Cookbook, The Cosmopolitan Cookbook, and Lazy Days which featured in the Gourmand World Cookbook 2007 Awards.
Dr Elbé Coetsee Craft art specialist, who established the Mogalakwena Craft Art Development Foundation and initiated a craft centre to support the economic and social upliftment of the Pedi community in the North Western province of South Africa. With a PhD from the University of Pretoria, she published Craft Art in South Africa that represented a ground breaking contribution to this field.
Dr John Compton Earth scientist with a PhD from Harvard University, who taught marine geology at the University of South Florida before moving to the University of Cape Town, where he is an associate professor in the Department of Geological Sciences. Since publishing The Rocks and Mountains of Cape Town, he has become a sought after lecturer at the university’s Summer School.
John Ford Former cellar master of the International Wine and Food Society and chairman of the Oenophiles wine club. His independent speciality food and wine emporium has won the ‘Outstanding Outlet’ award for several years from Eat In, South Africa’s definitive food lovers’ guide.
Dr Hans Fransen, Ridder in de Orde van Oranje-Nassau Art and architecture historian and author of seminal books on South African architecture such as the definitive The Old Buildings of the Cape and his most recent Old Towns and Villages of the Cape. He has been involved in arts and culture since immigrating from Holland in 1955 - as curator of the Stellenbosch and Groot Constantia museums, assistant director of the SA National Gallery and director of the Michaelis Art collection. He was knighted by the Netherlands for his pioneering work and dedication to architecture - the fieldwork for one book which covers over 5 000 buildings and includes 700 photographs, required travelling 25 000 km by car and 5 000 km by bicycle.
Margie Garratt Professional textile artist whose name is synonymous with quilting and whose work crosses the boundaries between art and craft. She was the driving force behind Innovative Threads, an annual exhibition providing a greater multi cultural understanding of South African textile and fibre art .
Prof Brian Huntley Former chief executive of the National Botanical Institute and subsequently the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) based at Kirstenbosch, spearheading its transformation into a world-class organisation of high visibility and credibility. He founded the Southern African Botanical Diversity Network and has been involved in multi interdisciplinary and organisational research programmes resulting in numerous publications. Having retired in 2006, he now acts as senior policy advisor to the governmental Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism.
Dr Antoineta Jerardino Archaeologist and heritage impact assessor for the South African Heritage Resources Agency, she is involved with the reconstruction of palaeo-environments by way of faunal remains. With a PhD from the University of Cape Town she has been part of a team excavating open shell middens and rock shelters along the West Coast with the aim of reconstructing the ways San Bushmen hunter gatherer groups exploited marine resources.
Dr Antonia Malan Independent historical archaeologist with a PhD from the University of Cape Town and member of the Historical Archaeology Research Group, she has directed a significant transcription project capturing archival papers from the VOC period and the first decades of British rule at the Cape, in collaboration with the national archives of the Netherlands. She is actively involved in local heritage issues, is a trustee of Cape Town Heritage Trust, has chaired the Vernacular Architecture Society of South Africa and edits the VASSA Journal.
Allan Mullins Cape Wine Master - and wine selection manager for the country's leading retailer who sits on numerous wine tasting panels. He has been chairman and cellar master of the International Wine and Food Society, judge of numerous wine events including the SAA wine list, Diners Club wine list of the year, senior lecturer for the Cape Wine Academy, and co-author of two books on wine.
Dr Nigel Penn Authority on Cape history, who has published The Forgotten Frontier - Colonists and Khoisan on the Cape’s Northern Frontier in the 18th Century, Rogues, Rebels and Runaways: 18th Century Cape Characters, The Khoisan and the Colonists at the Cape 1700 – 1800, and Robben Island: The Politics of Rock and Stone. He is a popular public speaker and has acted as historical consultant for exhibitions on Robben Island and the Bushmen / San as well as for a film history of South Africa. He holds a PhD from the University of Cape Town where he is an associate professor in the Department of Historical Studies.
Dr Terence Rapke Classicist and ancient historian with degrees from Melbourne (Monash) and Johannesburg (Witwatersrand) universities, who spent a good part of his academic life teaching in Ghana, Australia, and South Africa, authoring numerous papers and reviews on Greek and Roman history. For the past decade has led tours around the Western Cape, with special interests being Cape history and wine.
André van Graan Restoration architect who worked on both Hampton Court Palace and Windsor Castle, and specialised in Edwardian and Art Deco architecture, focusing on the work of Sir Herbert Baker, leading a number of tours on Baker’s architecture including a visit by the British Furniture History Society. He lectures at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology, is chairman of the Vernacular Architecture Society of South Africa as well as the Heritage Committee of the Cape Institute for Architecture, where he is vice president.
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