From having started out restoring antique furniture more than 10 years ago, Kim’s Corner has expanded to creating repurposed “new products with character”. Run by brothers Daniel and Andrew Schwarz, the new side of the business, Fresh from the Farm, focuses on creating new furniture using salvaged items.
The final arguments in the reopened inquest into the death in detention of Muslim cleric Imam Abdullah Haron will begin in the Western Cape High Court on Monday.
Now, 53 years after Imam Abdullah Haron’s death in detention, his family hopes to hear what really happened. ‘From this moment on, we need to be prepared. We don’t know what lies ahead when it goes to the high court,’ Fatiema Haron Masoet, the daughter of the anti-apartheid activist, sa.
Rowntree slavery links
Workers packing chocolates at the Rowntree factory in Haxby Road in the early 1900s. Picture: Nestlé archive/ Borthwick Institute. Inset: Joseph Rowntree in the 1890s. Picture: Explore York The Quaker philanthropist and chocolate magnate Joseph Rowntree is a man revered in York - and much further afield - for his passionate commitment to improving the lives of the less well off. In many ways, he was far ahead of his time. He set up one of the first-ever occupational pension schemes for employees at his chocolate factory, and provided workers with a library, free education, a social welfare officer, a doctor and a dentist.
Rowntree Society investigates history of slavery and forced labour in cocoa company’s colonial-era past By Anthony Myers The Rowntree Society has said it has uncovered links to slavery and historic racial abuse in the brand s supply chain in light of the Black Lives Matter movement. The Rowntree chocolate factory in York was founded in 1862 and is the home of the KitKat bar since 1935.
Research into the company’s past, carried out last year partly in response to the Black Lives Matter movement, reviewed the company’s global supply chains and histories of slavery, forced labour, colonialism and racial injustice.