Zuurberg Mountain Village (also spelt:"Suurberg")
Lying in the North Western corner, of the Sundays River Valley, Zuurberg lies at the foot of the Mountain of the same name.
Steynsburg
What started out as a small Village, Steynsburg is surrounded by the magnificent Zuurberg Mountain Range in the Eastern Cape. At only 17.4 square kilometres. It is now a little Town of about 8 000 people. Andries Petrus Johannes Steyn was born there in 1823. He was the founder of this Town, established in 1872.
President Paul Kruger was also born here and then lived in the neighbouring farm; “Bulhoek”, during his early years. The house still stands there. Another Afrikaans legend who was born here was Marais Steyn.
Krishna Rabilal
Krishna Rabilal was born on 6 November 1952 to working class parents in the township of Merebank, south of Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal – KZN).
A quiet and unassuming person, Rabilal was a brilliant student, excelling in both mathematics and physical science. He hated the Afrikaans language, calling it the language of the oppressor. He felt so strongly about this that he refused to study Afrikaans on principle.
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To explore the patterns of collective memory in South Africa after nearly three decades of democracy, we set out to establish how much of the country’s recent history people in the country still remember.
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