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Grootvadersbosch Farm offers a comfortable guest house named; 'Snelsetter', built in 1735, this Historic Homestead is largely maintained in its original state. The Farm offers a great opportunity for visitors to see agriculture and nature working side by side. Grootvadersbosch Farm is the Heidelberg district, about 250 km from Cape Town. This Farm is one of South Africa's Historic treasures. The Homestead was built in 1735 and 6 generations of the Moodie family have lived here since 1818. Keith and Michele Moodie will welcome you to their dairy Farm!

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Rebecca Lan
Born: January 1, 1933 in Cape Town

Rebecca Lan was born in 1933 in Cape Town and grew up in Oranjezicht and Athlone. Her parents were immigrants from Lithuania who arrived in South Africa in 1928. They had been involved in left-wing political groups in Lithuania, and Rebecca grew up hearing much political discussion at home. Her parents ran a second-hand furniture shop.

THE HISTORY of the South African Trotskyists during the 1930s and into the next decade was never made available or discussed with new recruits. There were vague stories, but no hard facts. No former member of the groups wrote about his experiences, and there was a silence that was so extensive that some comrades' names could not be mentioned. I learnt in the 1940s that there had been a one-time nun in the leadership of the Workers Party of South Africa. But no details were available, even though she had died (as I later found) in 1942.

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Ashlatha Rambally
Born: January 1, 1946 in Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal)

Ashlatha Moodley (nèe Rambally) was born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) in 1946 and grew up in the small town of Colenso. After completing her matric in 1964, she moved to Durban and attended the University College for Indians at Salisbury Island (later renamed in 1972 as the University of Durban-Westville (UDW) – now known as University of KwaZulu-Natal - UKZN) where she graduated with a BA degree, majoring in English and Psychology, and became a qualified teacher.

There have always been general assumptions that the KhoeSan people (‘Khoe’ is the correct spelling) are extinct and that their languages at the Cape died out with them. Another assumption is that they once spoke ‘Cape Khoe’ but that this language has also died out because it was last heard used in public in the Cape by Uithaalder in his protest against the introduction of a new vagrancy law against the KhoeSan in 1834 (Ross 2017). 

Hondeklipbaai is a small fishing community along the coast of Namaqualand. The Village was original to export copper in Namaqualand. Simon Van der Stel, the governor of the Cape, discovered copper in Namaqualand. As early as 1852 the first copper was shipped by the “Bosphorus” to Wales. Hondeklip was the Port for copper shipping to the United Kingdom! The Town never developed, as it was too far from the Springbok Magistrate! The small Village or Harbour point never seem to be able to expand.