The history of Hermanus: It was within the past ten years that Hermanus has sprung from a hamlet to a leading health resort in South Africa.
The little village has been amalgamated with Poole’s Bay and Mossel River; the rateable value which was £750,000 in 1941 is today estimated well over £5,000,000; hotels have been sold and re-sold; both the English and Dutch Reformed Churches have been re-built; the school – now the Hermanus High School – has been enlarged; fashionable houses – some real mansions – have been built; a new Post Office and a new Police Station and Magistrates’ Court have been erected; the New Harbour is nearing completion; bathing facilities have been improved through the layout of the New Beach at the Riviera; new businesses and business premises have been established; but to crown it all, the Hermanus Municipality has done its best to meet the water supply by having the Rock Fill Dam built at £123,000.
