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Lillian Diedericks
Born: 1925 in Red Location, New Brighton, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape

Lillian Diedericks was born in 1925 in the oldest part of New Brighton township, Red Location (near the railway line), in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape. Her family, classified as Coloured, were forcefully removed from their home by the apartheid government in 1940 when it became a Black only zone.

One of the founding figures of Postcolonial Studies, Benita Parry, died after a short illness on 19 January 2020. In a series of brilliant essays written in the 1980s and 1990s, subsequently re-published as Postcolonial Studies. A Materialist Critique (2004), Parry invigorated literary-theoretical debates about the cultures of (neo-)colonialism with her sophisticated Marxist analysis.

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Rietfontein is a Town in ZF Mgcawu District Municipality, in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa. It functions as the Rietfontein Border post with Namibia, during the day hours of 08:00-16:30, that gives access to and from South-East Namibia, via Aroab on the C 16 Main Road.

Clarendon Circle was a Landmark Intersection, of the North East Route into Johannesburg. It was a Circle of note Located where East Avenue crossed Empire, Bruce, Twist and Klein Streets. There was an Island on East Avenue, separating the Traffic Lanes with an attractive line up of palm trees and shrubs. Today Clarendon Circle is NO more! The fingerprint of the History is captured in the name; Clarendon Place which is the new name for, East Avenue.
A small, modern Karoo Village, Laingsburg lies at the confluence of two rivers, but is one of the driest parts of the Country. Laingsburg is 280 km from Cape Town just off the N1 highway that travels through the Great Karoo. Despite its dryness, they are well known for the freak flood that devastated the Town on the 25 of January 1981. In a matter of Hours, the entire Town was under water, with only the roofs of Houses visible. This traumatic event was due to an abnormal rainfall in the Catchments of both the Buffel's River and Biviana's Rivers that come together in the Town.