Invisible Traces
Hoerikwaggo – mountain in the sea or Table Mountain
//Hui !Gaeb – the place where clouds gather or Cape Town
/Xam ka (plural) – San people, same meaning as the Nguni word abantu
Khoena (plural) – Khoekhoe people, same meaning as the Nguni word abantu
Camissa – //ammi i ssa – sweet waters
Hoerikwaggo (Table Mountain)
Hoerikwaggo is the Khoekhoe name for Table Mountain. One of seven Wonders of the World ...
Site of the Fort of Good Hope
During the early 1650s the Goringhaiqua grazed their stock all over the Cape Peninsula. They ...
Salt River, battle between Khoekhoen and Portuguese in 1510
Near the Liesbeeck-Salt River Canal lies the Cape’s oldest recorded battle site. Even now in ...
Greenmarket Square: slave market, site of execution and burgher watch house
Greenmarket Square was built in 1696 when a burgher watch house was erected. It is ...
The Old Granary
The granary building has had many uses in its 200 years of existence. As a ...
Lydia Williams’s home in District Six
Lydia Williams, born to Mazbieker or Mozambican slave parents, was 14 years old when slaves ...
Sir George Grey
In the Company Gardens you will find the commemorative statue of Sir George Grey who ...
Groote Kerk: re-interpretation of Dutch Reformed Church’s role in slavery and apartheid
The Dutch Reformed Groote Kerk’s (Mother church) proximity, both historically & spatially, is linked to ...
Krotoa’s Castle: calling attention to the space and the Khoekhoe structures before the castle was built on it
Krotoa (Eva) is one of many remarkable indigenous women. She, in six or seven years, ...
Company’s Gardens & Slave Lodge: The story of Amosyn Claazs
One of the early manumissions was that of Amosyn Claasz. She worked as a Company ...
Perseverance Tavern
Dating back to 1808, this is the oldest pub in Cape Town. Travellers disembarking from ...
Slave washerwomen walk (three centuries of dirty laundry)
Buitenkant Street, which leads from the Castle up to Platteklip Ridge, was known as the ...
The Liesbeek River
The Black and Liesbeek Rivers flowed into the Salt River and together with the Diep ...
Keerom Street
These days Keerom Street is the legal precinct and houses the Western Cape High Court. ...
Breakwater Lodge (Old Prison)
28 ǀXam people, inmates at the Breakwater convict station were interviewed by the linguist Wilhelm ...
From “hoerhuis” (brothel) to Newspaper House
Above what later became the offices of the Cape Times in St George’s Street Cape ...
Camissa River or //ammi i ssa
The Camissa River flows down the middle of Table Mountain, down Platteklip Gorge. It is ...
Church Square, Spin Street (Slave Square)
Church Square is one of the three earliest areas of property in Cape Town’s development. ...
Silk spinning factory, Spin Street
Child labour was used in a shed erected on the corner of Plein and Spin ...
Execution Site
(Between old Granary building and the new Universal Church on Buitenkant Street) The site on ...
