Hopefield is a town in the Western Cape province, South Africa, north of Cape Town. The town was laid out in 1852 and was named for the two Cape Colony government officials who were responsible, named Hope and Field. Municipal status was granted in 1914. Hopefield is situated in a semiarid agricultural region; wheat is the principal product, but sheep raising and honey production are also important.
Elands Bay Cave is located near the Mouth of the Verlorenvlei Estuary on the Atlantic coast of South Africa Western Cape Province. Hidden in the caves are the most beautiful cave paintings. These were done by the Bushmen who lived in this area thousands of years ago. The University of Cape Town also has an Archeological Site not far from this spot.
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Sifundile Matalazi
Died:
20-December-1980
in Umtata,Transkei
(Suicide by strangulation)
Mr Sifundile Matalazi,aged 27 died on 20 December 1980 in Umtata in the Transkei after being held for 112 days.The Act under which he was held was undisclosed.
During the inquest into Mr Matalazi's death it was alleged that he committed suicide.Police evidence was that Mr Malazi had joined his pairs of socks and had tied one end around his neck,the other to the window.He then allegedly lay down on the floor,covered himself with a blanket using the left arm to exert pressure,and thus died of strangulation.
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Maddie Measel
Project: Matthews Marwale Mabelane
Cole Worsham
Project: Nicodemus Kgoathe
Taylor Hare
Project: Simon Thembuyise Mndawe
P.J. Van den Branden
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Mzukisi Nobhadula
Died:
December 20, 1977
in North End Prison, Port Elizabeth,SA
(Natural causes)
Mr Mzukisi Nobhadula died in detention on 20 December 1977 at the North End Prison in Port Elizabeth.Mr Nobhadula was an awaiting-trial prisoner on a charge of perjury and had been held for 6 days at the time of his death.The perjury charge arose from evidence he gave in a public violence trial which resulted from the frequent violent clashes between police and students in PE during 1977.
Andrew Verster died peacefully in his bed on Sunday 16th February. It was the kind if death he would have wished for. No fuss, no drama – an end to a life well lived. Since his life partner, Aidan Walsh, died in July 2009 it seemed that life was never quite the same for him.
Jock Strachan – who died this month aged 94 – prevented a probable second massacre of black demonstrators outside Central Prison in Durban by deliberately standing with his young wife Maggie between them and white apartheid police pointing Sten guns, only days after the massacre at Sharpeville 60 years ago.
The police had already shot dead a “guileless, slightly built bloke with a bag full of Granny Smith apples”, left lying in the road.
The demonstrators were workers demanding the release of their leaders, locked up without trial in the prison.