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Sep 13, 2020 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Anna De Koningh formed part of the first group of 14 slaves at the Cape. She is the only slave from that period of whom there is a portrait in existence. She was set free on 13 April 1666, when her owner returned to Batavia. #AColouredTapestry
On 10 September 1678, she married Oloff Bergh. After he was convicted for corruption, they were banished to Robben Island and later to Ceylon. They returned to the Cape in 1695. Oloff rebuilt his reputation and became a wealthy person.
In 1712, Simon vd Stell, the Governor of the Cape, died and his estate was sold. Oloff bought Groot Constantia. With his death in 1724, Anna became owner of Groot Constantia until her death in 1734. She had 11 children and several South Africans can trace their roots back to her.

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Sathima Bea Benjamin passed away in August 2013. She was born in 1936 in Claremont. Her father was from St. Helena, and her mother had roots in Mauritius and the Philippines. Her family life was disrupted by the declaration of her birth-place as a ‘white area’. (1/7)
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The story of Goedverwacht (near Piketberg) begins with an enslaved woman, Maniesa, originally from Bengal, India. She was held in slavery by Hendrik Schalk Burger. Burger was a widower whose children had abandoned him in his old age.

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