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While we are on the topic of Afrikaans being a stolen language. Do we know about what is happening in Observatory, Cape Town? Particularly surrounding indigenous ground & water?
Amazon is currently trying to build their Africa headquarters, and fill parts of the River with cement
Amazon is currently trying to build their Africa headquarters, and fill parts of the River with cement
The area itself is sacred and important, we know it is one of the places where battles were fought against colonisation. Before then, the area was a safe haven and place where our people found water, and practiced African spirituality. The area and rivers are also home to
Endangered plant and animal species. All of which will surely disappear once Amazon builds their headquarters there. The building itself will also be responsible for potential flooding in the area according to environmental specialists, as it will take place on a floodplain.
Tohira Kerrike (also spelt Kherekar) has been selling flowers at Silwood Centre in #Rondebosch for the past 45 years. She talks about her childhood in "Untold Stories: Memories of growing up in a different era," a book by @CTchildhood. (1/14) 
Her family owned a small farm in #Constantia at the top of Ladies Mile Road. On the farm, they grew vegetables and #flowers. Her mother sold the flowers that were grown on the farm. Tohira started helping her mother with the selling of flowers. (2/14)
