McGregor, Western Cape
Legend has it that our Breede Valley neighbors would admonish their errant children with "Behave! Or I'll send you to McGregor!" and no one can deny that McGregor is somehow a little different.
Timeline of State Action Against the Press in the 1960s
1960
Mar- Norman Phillips of the Toronto Star was detained 3 and '/2 days for trying to cable a story about a police attack on Nyanga, Cape Town. The report had been intercepted by the Durban postal authorities. (Merrett:42)
Apr 5- Patrick Duncan, editor of Contact was detained for three weeks for refusing to disclose his sources
Apr 5- Torch and New Age banned. (Merrett:44-45)
Apr- Editor of Africa South, Ronald Segal, flees the country
The Colors of Resistance in Apartheid South Africa: Black Consciousness Poetry and the Racial Elusiveness of Wopko Jensma
The article analyzes Black Consciousness poetry of the 1970s and 1980s South Africa alongside the protest poetry of white South African poet Wopko Jensma. It is argued that while the racial definition of oppression and resistance by Black Consciousness poetry had the important aim of the recovery of the black people’s dignity and the fostering of racial solidarity and unity, it also had the unfortunate consequence of not recognizing white resistance and preventing cross-racial solidarity and empathy.
Wallacedene, Cape Town
Wallacedene is an Informal Housing Settlement in the Eastern Suburbs of Cape Town, South Africa. The Settlement was established during the 1980s when the relaxation of pass laws allowed rural Populations, to be able to migrate to Urban Centers with far less restrictions! By 2004, Wallacedene had an estimated Population of 21,000 people. The Predominant Race, making up 76% of the Population is: Black African Peoples. The Housing Rights Activist Irene Grootboom lived in Wallacedene.
Ashton, Route 62
The little Village of Ashton is famous for its; Fruit, Wine and Rose Nurseries. Ashton originally served as a Settlement Area for the Employees of one of the largest Factory Co-Operatives in the Southern Hemisphere, which produces: "Canned Fruit, Jams and Vegetables". Today, Ashton is one of the towns on Route 62 - the shorter more Scenic alternative to the N2 highway that is fast earning a reputation as the World’s longest Wine Route - and is one of the main Wine-Producing Towns on the Robertson Wine Route.
#Am I Next? A Global Question
During September 2019 protests against Gender Based Violence (GBV) peaked after Uyinene Mrwetyana, a student at the University of Cape Town (UCT), was brutally raped and murdered on 24 August 2019 by Luyanda Botha, a post office worker. [1] Her body, which had been stored in a Clarenreich post office safe overnight and then set alight, was found shortly afterwards in Lingelethu West, Khayelitsha in the Western Cape. [2] As a result of her death and the rise in femicide in South Africa, hundre
Zoar, Western Cape
It is difficult to talk about Zoar or Amalienstein separately, so interwoven are these sister Towns. They lie adjacent to one another on Route 62, they are both on the Missionary Route (that includes Mamre, Genadendal, Wuppertal, Steinkopf and Elim) and both Towns are under-explored and dependent on Tourism, for their survival.
Their History goes something like this: Zoar was the first of the South African Missionary Society's (SAMS) 'projects', established in 1817.
Debating Stellenbosch University’s Language Policy
In March 2015 students at the University of Cape Town (UCT) (Western Cape) launched a student movement, namely #Rhodes Must Fall which focused on the decolonization of education and tertiary institutions in South Africa. [1] This “Fallist” movement did not only give rise to the #FeesMustFall protests, that focused on decreasing tertiary education fees, but was also the start of the Open Stellenbosch movement. [2] The Open Stellenbosch protests were led by black students who argued that Afrikaans as