*Sima BENVENISTE, 1920 Cape Town – 1990 Johannesburg. She was the daughter of Isaac [Simon] BENVENISTE & Lena MEIROWITZ, and granddaughter of Simon [?] BENVENISTE & Sarota [Gabriel] BENATAR. She married to Ezra Ishia ELIOVSON, 1909 Jaffa – 1962 Johannesburg.**Sima was born in Cape Town, educated in Johannesburg and majored with English and History at Wits University. Then she trained as a teacher ‘‘and taught for a short time”. In 1942 she got married to Ezra Eliovson, photographer of many of her books, and had three sons to whom a number of her books were dedicated: Robin, Peter and Stephen.**She was recognised as the doyenne of garden writing in South Africa. She published 12 books between the 1950s and 1970s.**Her husband Ezra Eliovson, for twelve years president of the Johannesburg Photographic Society, took the photographs for her books and together they undertook botanical and photographic journeys. He developed his own four color prints in his home darkroom. Nothing is as valuable to a garden writer as a resident professional photographer, and it shows in her books. She took over her late husband’s camera after he passed away in 1962.**Their son, Stephen Eliovson, was Born on 27 November 1953 in Johannesburg, He, was the youngest of their three sons. From the age of 21, he had studied guitar under Johnny Fourie, the house guitarist at Ronnie Scott’s Club in London in the early 1960s. Within just one year, he was performing in public and in 1978 after a brief stint designing guitar accessories in the United States, he returned to tour South Africa with Fourie. It was in this context where he began to play with conversations between western and eastern jazz rubrics, bringing tablas and sitars to chat and dance with electric and acoustic guitars.**His only album “Dawn Dance (1981)”,evolved from the late 1970s, when he mailed a cassette tape to German-based independent record label ECM. Sadly, it was to be his only album. A second album was lined up with ECM when he broke his leg badly. This was to be a harbinger of a mysterious turn of events in his life which saw him never recording again. Rumours of him trying his hand at farming in KwaZulu-Natal and of his stash of guitars remaining unclaimed in the US cannot be corroborated. Effectively Stephen vanished from the grid, the music industry and his friends and fans.**His mother died in 1990. In 2008, his brother Peter died in Australia. Stepen was supported financially by the Jewish Benevolent Society in the last couple of years of his life. He died on March 17th, 2020, in Johannesburg.*