Construction of a pathway in Richmond Park, Richmond Hill, was halted on Wednesday after blowback from the Mandela Bay Heritage Trust which warned that any excavation work might uncover graves and other artefacts from a historical cemetery located below ground.
Turning Steve Biko’s holding cell into a heritage site and renaming it after the black consciousness leader would ensure that history was preserved and Biko’s legacy lives on.
A self-proclaimed AmaMfengu tribal leader, King Bantu “Mthimkhulu” Ntuntwana, is fighting to reclaim land situated in some of Nelson Mandela Bay’s most affluent suburbs.
A Nelson Mandela Bay historian is opening old wounds in his quest to get the South African Heritage Resources Agency (SAHRA), Nelson Mandela Bay municipality and other government entities to formally conserve the century-old Mfengu graves discovered in Richmond Park.