The South African Council on Sports (SACOS) was founded on 17 March 1973. It fought for non-racial sport under the leadership of Hassan Howa and lobbied for apartheid South Africa's expulsion from international sport. (1/5)
Hassan Howa was born in 1922 in Cape Town to a Christian Coloured mother and a Muslim Indian father. He matriculated from Trafalgar High School. He was an amateur cricketer and was a founder of the SA Cricket Board of Control (SACBOC). (2/5)
In 1968, South Africa refused to host a British cricket team that included Basil D'Oliveira. Through SACBOC, Hassan galvanized the support of organizations internationally to ensure that the Springboks were banned from international cricket. (3/5)
Hassan wanted all apartheid sport to be isolated. He helped to establish an over-arching sports body to pursue non-racial sport. He was president of SACOS from 1974 to 1981. The SACOS slogan: “No normal sport in an abnormal society.” (4/5)
Hassan Howa passed away in 1992. He was honoured with the Order of Ikhamanga in silver in 2004 and an honorary doctorate from the University of the Western Cape in 2013. (5/5)
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Zwarte Maria Evert was the first owner of the farm that later became Camps Bay. She was born at the Cape in 1663. Her parents arrived at the Cape in 1658 as part of a group of 220 enslaved people taken from what is now Benin. (1/6)
Her father was given his freedom in 1659; the first male slave to be freed. He bought her and her mother’s freedom in 1671. He had been granted a plot of land, where he lived and ran a garden. (2/6)
Maria sold the produce from the garden for her father. Later, she learnt how to make deals and how one could acquire land, and became the owner of several farms in the Cape. (3/6)
Peter Clarke was a visual artist, writer and poet. His career spanned more than 6 decades and his work was exhibited and honoured on 6 continents. Peter passed away on 13 April 2014 in Ocean View. (1/5)
Peter was born on 2 June 1929 in Simon’s Town. His mother was a domestic worker; his father was a dockyard worker. Though they didn’t earn much, his parents supplied him with pencils, crayons and paper on which to practise his art. (2/5)
In 1944, after a year at Livingstone High School, he started working as a dock worker. In 1956, Peter gave up his job at the dockyard. He held his first solo exhibition in the newsroom of the newspaper The Golden City Post, in 1957. (3/5)
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)
#CapeTown has a long history of flower selling. @meboehi writes in “The flower sellers of Cape Town – a history”, that the cut flower trade began as an activity of #slaves in early colonial Cape Town and that flower selling began in the mid-1880s. (3/14)