St James Beach

This guide to St James Beach in Cape Town opens with two Boer prisoners of war lying flat in a stone loft during the Anglo Boer War, listening to British boots crossing the yard below. It follows Abraham Auret, the local resident whose cottage still stands near the beach, who risked his own freedom by sheltering escaped prisoners under a British administration wary of Cape sympathy for the Boer cause. The guide also turns to the tidal pool in front of you, shaped in 1903 by a very different kind of confinement.