Tag: Kommetjie

• Apr 13 2008

  Lighthouse Fisheries (Witsand)

  Lighthouse Fisheries, the brainchild of a Mr. Louw, was one of the first fishery in South Africa to export live crayfish (rock lobster) to international markets, packed in containers, by air to Europe. The fisheries buildings at Witsand, on the road from Kommetjie to Cape Point between the lighthouse and Camel Rock, consisted of tanks…

• Feb 06 2008

  Kommetjie (Slangkop Radio Station)

  During the war years the Post Office operated this early warning radio station by Morse Code. The primary use of the station was to receive SOS signals from merchant ships that were torpedoed by German U-boats off the Cape coast.