by miles | Sep 18, 2025 | Uncategorised
“It appears that the council has bulldozed its way into promulgating these regulations which prevent surfers from using areas not used by bathers since Van Riebeeck landed.” – John Whitmore Muizenberg is the undisputed spiritual home of wave riding in South...
by miles | Jul 17, 2025 | Uncategorised
Any encyclopedia of South African surfing history would be incomplete without the inclusion of 1960s women’s Cape Town surf star and John Whitmore protégé, Margaret Smith. Among the second generation of early South African surfers, ‘Margie’, as most knew her, was a...
