Corrigendum

The author inadvertently introduced some errors into this article when it was published in Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Engineering History and Heritage 162(4): 171–172, doi: 10.1680/eacm.2009.162.4.171.

The first sentence of paragraph 2 on page 172 is published correctly below.

The words on our South African Coat of Arms, adopted after 1994, are: ‘!ke e: /xarra //ke’ – unity in diversity.