Dear IPTGSA Members,
We are pleased to invite you to our first IPTGSA Educational for 2026, taking place on Thursday, 22 January 2026.
This educational will be hosted by Anton Joubert, IPTGSA Committee Member, and offers a valuable opportunity to deepen your historical knowledge while engaging with fellow professional guides.
Date: Monday, 8 September 2025
Time: 17:00 – 19:30Â
Boarding: 17:45 sharp (Sunset Cruise)
Fleet: Ameera Catamaran – Yacoob Yachts
IPTGSA invites you to join a dynamite museum in Chloorkop Modderfontein on Wednesday, 3 July 2024, 9.30 for 10.00. Â lunch afterward for own account.
 We will meet at Muse Bakery next to the museumÂ
Built in 1886 by the prosperous Pretoria businessman George Jesse Heys, it was named after the famous Melrose Abbey in Scotland. Melrose House gained fame during the Second Boer War (1899–1902) when Lord Roberts requisitioned it as the headquarters for the British forces after Pretoria was invaded in June 1900. For more than 18 months, instructions for the British forces in the field were issued from here. The use of the house as a military headquarters ended when the Treaty of Vereeniging, which ended the war, was signed there on 31 May 1902.
