Going heavy metal in Springs

Museum: Businessman With Passion Preserves The Past With All Its Relics

- Ian Hughes

For travellers driving to Springs, one may well imagine their astonishment when a large field on their right with the most amazing and indeed, wholly unexpected sight catches their eye: planes, (think Mirage), tanks, field guns and old mining equipment all immaculately displayed.

For most of us, the sight evokes immediate curiosity. And thus it was that The Citizen found the Mine & Military Museum.

And there we found 64-year-old Tony da Cruz, Springs businessman, visionary and the founder and director of the museum. Da Cruz also owns and runs a security company when he is not occupied with his all-consuming passion: to preserve the past with its relics, illustrating the long journey this country has been on.