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Geoff Mortimer – Seven Decades in South African Motorsport This book details the remarkable racing and rallying career of Geoff Mortimer, from racing Morris Minors at Roy Hesketh in Pietermaritzburg to engineering turbocharged Audis and Fords. In doing so, it also highlights the characters, technical development...

80 YEARS OF CAPE MOTORING HIGHLIGHTS Derek Stuart-Findlay Crankhandle Club resident historian Derek Stuart-Findlay traces the history of motorsport and motoring at the Cape of Good Hope from the end of the Second World War to the present day in his richly illustrated new book ‘Keeping on...

It was with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Michelle Beneke – Auntie Michelle of the Nitro Den – on Tuesday 14 October, after a long illness bravely borne. Auntie Michelle came to drag racing through her son Shaun, best known for his...

The name Fourie is synonymous with motorcycle racing at Killarney; there were four Fourie brothers – Keith, Anthony, Victor and Dennis, three of whom raced bikes with considerable success in the 1970s and ‘80s. So it was with painful sadness that we learned of the sudden...

Killarney is a greener and more welcoming place thanks to his hand on it, and now that hand is gone. Fanie Redelinghuys, a horticulturist whose love and knowledge of plants and trees made him a legend, passed away on Monday 13 October at the age...