Eve Hall was born on 20 March 1937 in Paris, France, to a Jewish father and a German mother. When the Second World War broke out, her father was on a visit to South Africa, leaving her mother to cope with a half-Jewish child under Nazi occupation. Defiantly, she refused to pin the yellow Star of David (an identifier that Jewish people had to wear) on her daughter’s clothes.

Sumboornam (Sam) Pillay, who later became known as Sam Moodley, was born in 1948*. She grew up in the multi-cultural community of Dundee, Northern Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), where African, Indian and Coloured families lived together peacefully before the Group Areas Act tore the community apart.

Mary Matilda Brown was born in Sea Point, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa on 20 July 1847. She advocated for social and moral reform and was a campaigner for women’s rights. Brown trained as a midwife in Scotland. She actively participated in the temperance movement against the trade of alcohol.

This Historic Town, is a living Museum with a vibrant 'Street Culture'. The Town has a variety of soils and locations ideally suited to flourishing of a wide variety of grape cultivars. This has seen Stellenbosch continue to dominate the South African wine scene in terms of quality.