Mail & Guardian
Mail & Guardian

Cape Malay

latest news & developments
SM Slader’s 1824 engraving Sale of a Negro Family, of a slave auction in Cape Town. Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images
ARTICLE

The truth about Cape slavery and historical misrepresentations

This is an edited extract from Patric Tariq Mellet’s The Truth About Cape Slavery

  • Patric Tariq Mellet
6 min read
For more than a week before President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the nationwide lockdown on Monday, the Bo-Kaap had been off-limits for non-residents. (John McCann/M&G)
ALAN WINDE

Bo-Kaap locks itself down early

Cape Town’s Bo-Kaap community was effectively sealed off from visitors more than a week before the president’s announcement

  • Lester Kiewit
5 min read