This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference
These papers were submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference
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The SS Clan Stuart was blown ashore in 1914 between Glencairn and Simon's Town, along Cape Town’s west coast. The SS in the vessel's name stands for ‘steamship’. This steamship was built by W. Doxford and Son in 1900, in Sunderland, England (Barnardt, 2013). It was a triple expansion steam engine ship, weighing 3,594 tons, but it was not designed to withstand strong weather conditions (Barnardt, 2013). This design meant that most of the ship would be below the waterline, the method has become known as the turret deck principle (Mitchell, n.d.).
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The building that plays host to the new Zeitz MOCAA has been a part of Cape Town since the early 1900's. At 57 metres, the Grain Silo was once the tallest building in Cape Town, when it was built in 1921. It was decommissioned as a grain silo in 2001, and gradually became more derelict. In 2017, it was converted to the remarkable Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (MOCAA), in a spectacular contemporary reimagining of this Historical Building. Created by London-based architect; Thomas Heatherwick.
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Lying in the North Western corner, of the Sundays River Valley, Zuurberg lies at the foot of the Mountain of the same name.
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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.
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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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