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Published April 30, 2020Updated November 3, 2020

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Stella Nyanzi
Born: June 16, 1974 in Masaka District, Buganda Kingdom, Uganda

Dr Stella Nyanzi was born in Masaka District, Buganda Kingdom in Uganda on 16 June 1974. Also known as Nnalongo (which means mother of twins), she is a medical anthropologist who has written about sexuality, HIV/AIDS and women’s health. She is also a political activist who campaigns for women and girls rights, as well as the rights of LGBTQIA+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, asexual and queer) people.

Published April 30, 2020Updated April 30, 2020
A Bay is an Area of water surrounded or otherwise demarcated by Land. Bays generally have calmer waters than the surrounding sea, due to the surrounding land blocking some waves and often reducing winds. Not in the case of Waterloo Bay though, many Sea Vessels have had their demise here!
Published April 29, 2020Updated April 22, 2022
The Al Azhar Mosque is an Islamic Mosque in District Six, Cape Town. It holds the same name as a rather resplendent more-famous Mosque in Cairo, Egypt but what it lacks in minarets, it makes up for with position, for the Mosque of Cape Town lies right in the heart of one of the City's former 'grey areas' of the Apartheid era - District Six. Al Azhar Mosque, in Aspeling Street, is the oldest Mosque in District Six, founded in 1887.North, Tennant Road to the West, De Waal Drive South of it, and Cambridge Street to the East. District Six, though, is no longer there.
Published April 29, 2020Updated March 20, 2025

It was laid-out as an Area for Coloureds and erected to house the middle income group, about 30 years ago! Parts of it quickly deteriorated into little more than ‘urban ghetto's’ - a description so often applied to these ready-made slums erected by former Apartheid rulers to separate Whites from other race Citizens.

Published April 29, 2020Updated October 2, 2020
Retreat is a Suburb of City of Cape Town, Western Cape with a postal code. It is about 15 kms West-North-West of the Provincial Capital City of Cape Town. The Suburb of Retreat in Cape Town was so named because the Dutch retreated to that Area when they were losing the Battle of Muizenberg. The Area falls under the Municipality of Cape Town. Retreat has many Transport Routes available: Rail, Air, Water and Road. As well as Labour, making it an Industrial Hub.

At seven p.m. sharp, seven nights a week, during the darkest days of apartheid, an incendiary radio broadcast beamed out from Lusaka, Zambia. It began with the clack of machine-gun fire, followed by a familiar call-and-response:

Amandla Ngawethu!

“Power to the People!”

The shooting faded in and out, waxing and waning with the chant.

Published April 29, 2020Updated November 3, 2020

Helen Newton Thompson, an anti-apartheid political activist and founding member of the Black Sash, has for the most part of history, been a fleeting footnote mentioned once or twice among her better known, women comrades.

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