Andrew Boraine » History and Memory http://www.andrewboraine.com Cities for People Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:23:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Wooden cobbles recently discovered in Adderley Street http://www.andrewboraine.com/2010/10/wooden-cobbles-recently-discovered-in-adderley-street/ http://www.andrewboraine.com/2010/10/wooden-cobbles-recently-discovered-in-adderley-street/#comments Sun, 10 Oct 2010 12:32:42 +0000 Andrew http://www.andrewboraine.com/?p=2965 A popular tradition of the Cape Town Partnership AGM is to take our guests on development walking tours of the Central City after the formal business has been concluded. This year, there were four choices of tour: East City Design Initiative, Cape Town’s World Design Capital 2014 Bid, Public…

]]> http://www.andrewboraine.com/2010/10/wooden-cobbles-recently-discovered-in-adderley-street/feed/ 12 History and bitter irony – the Huguenot Memorial in Franschhoek, South Africa http://www.andrewboraine.com/2010/10/history-and-bitter-irony-the-huguenot-memorial-in-franschhoek-south-africa/ http://www.andrewboraine.com/2010/10/history-and-bitter-irony-the-huguenot-memorial-in-franschhoek-south-africa/#comments Sun, 03 Oct 2010 19:41:51 +0000 Andrew http://www.andrewboraine.com/?p=2933 The well-known Huguenot Monument in Franschhoek commemorates the arrival of approximately 270 French Huguenots in the Cape circa 1687-89. They were fleeing religious persecution in France following the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685.

The monument incorporates a figure of a woman with a bible in her right hand…

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