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Mosaic benches unveiled at Jubilee Square to mark forced removals under apartheid era - SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader.


10 April 2021, 7:28 PM
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Image: SABC News Western Cape Memorial benches have been unveiled at Jubilee Square in Simon s Town in Cape Town to mark the forced removal of people during the apartheid era.
A website and memorial mosaic benches have been unveiled at Jubilee Square in Simon’s Town in Cape Town to mark the forced removal of people under the apartheid era’s Group Areas Act.
Simon’s Town was declared a white area in 1967, although forced removals started taking place two years earlier.
Residents from Luyolo, Red Hill, Dido Valley and Glencairn were forcefully relocated to the Cape Flats. ....

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Muslim cemetery in Claremont reopens after almost 100 years due to Covid-19


Muslim cemetery in Claremont reopens after almost 100 years due to Covid-19
19 February 2021 2:22 PM
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Burials will take place at the Al Jaamia Mosque Cemetery once again for the first time in nearly a century after it was closed by the apartheid government.
The City of Cape Town and Muslim Judicial Council (MJC) leadership have jointly decided to reopen the cemetery which is privately owned and has been dormant for years.
In a statement, the City says it has reopened the historic cemetery in Stegman Road to increase capacity for Muslim burials amid ongoing Covid-19 deaths.
The City s mayco member for community services and health, Zahid Badroodien, says the municipality engaged with various authorities to assist the MJC with obtaining the necessary approval to use the cemetery again. ....

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