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On my way to the beautiful Bo-Kaap for the official renaming ceremony - the doekmal. Very exciting! Our people are the history writers. The museum dates back to the 1760s and is the oldest house in ...
Smaller tour buses — those with 35 seats or less — will still be permitted on Upper Wale Street, but only for quick drop-offs at the Bo-Kaap Museum. After that, they'll need to make their way ...
Last week, residents protested outside the Iziko Bo-Kaap Museum to express their dissatisfaction with the influx of tourist buses in the neighbourhood. A view of the colourful homes in Wale Street ...
On 20 November, residents gathered outside the Iziko Bo-Kaap Museum to protest the unrestricted access of tour buses into their neighbourhood. John Maytham interviews Osman Shaboodien, Chairperson ...
The exhibition usually on display in Ramallah, Palestine will be available for showing in the Bo-Kaap in Cape Town. It was originally inaugurated at the Yasser Arafat Museum in Ramallah ...
A ride up the cable car to the flat-topped heights of iconic Table Mountain provides a sweeping view of Table Bay, the gilded beachfronts of the swank Atlantic seaboard’s “Cinderella ports” and the ...
Bo-Kaap is a stunning and historically significant part of Cape ... Nelson Mandela, the most well-known prisoner, was held there for 18 years. There is now a museum and historical site on Robben ...
Even Bo-Kaap, where art collector Michael Fitzgerald recently built his extrovert cubist living space, is a museum to long-ago styles ... housing a calming interior with a science fiction edge ...
The Bo-Kaap Museum is located in the remnants of the ... one of the largest collections from Africa and its diaspora. The interior is itself an artwork, featuring a glass-ceilinged atrium carved ...
Heritage buildings such as the Castle, the SA Museum in the Company Gardens, The Slave Lodge, St George’s Cathedral and the Groote Kerk and Bo Kaap Museum are popular ... or Provincial Heritage Sites.