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Subject: [SA-HISTORY] REMINDER-PRESS RELEASE:CEREMONY OF REMEMBRANCE, Sun, 6 May 07, from 16h00–18h00,St George’s Cathedral, Wale Street, Cape Town,Speaker: Dr Allan Boesak
Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 21:12:09 +0200
Hi Fellow BUITENPOSTEN/SA-HISTORY list participants
COMMEMORATION SERVICE : Ceremony of Remembrance, a joint event,
commemorating the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire in
1807, and highlighting the relevance of slavery to contemporary human
rights issues.
MAIN SPEAKER : Dr Allan Boesak, a world citizen
VENUE : St George’s Cathedral, Cape Town, Corner of Wale Street & Queen
Victoria Street, next to Government Ave, Company Gardens, near the South
African Parliamentary Complex, Cape Town.
DATE : Sun, 6 May 2007
TIME : 16h00–18h00
SPONSORS : IZIKO SLAVE LODGE MUSEUM, Family of Iziko Museums of Cape
Town, and its partner, St. George’s Cathedral of the Anglican religious
community
To RSVP, call Wandile Kasibe at 021 481 3804 / 083 335 6461 or email
<mailto:> by Monday, 30 April
2007.
Consult www.iziko.org.za <http://www.iziko.org.za>; for programme details.
Regards
Wandile Goozen Kasibe
Thank you
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For immediate release
Ceremony of Remembrance - 6th May 2007
Cape Town, April 26 2007 -- Iziko Museums of Cape Town, in collaboration
with the national Department of Arts and Culture and St George’s
Cathedral, will host a Ceremony of Remembrance on 6 May at St George’s
Cathedral (Wale Street, Cape Town) at 16h00, to commemorate the
abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire in 1807.
Dr Allan Boesak will speak on the subject of the abolition, as well as
the relevance of slavery to contemporary human rights issues.
Participants in the commemoration will also attend a walkabout of the
nearby Iziko Slave Lodge Museum, where thousands of slaves lived and
died between the late 17th and early 19th centuries. The Slave Lodge
hosts a Memory Centre that evocatively describes the slaves’ passage to
the Cape, and memorialises the names of the slaves, many of whom were
the progenitors of South African families. We encourage the public to
visit this site to deepen their understanding of the legacy of slavery
in South Africa, and to remember the millions of African and Asian
people who were bought and sold in the name of economic progress and
‘civilisation’ not so long ago.
For information about the event, email Vivienne Carelse at
or Tel. 021 481 3814.
Issued by:
Office of the CEO, Iziko Museums of Cape Town
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*Thank you.*
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You are most welcome to view my South African Slavery-pages i.e.
'Slavery @ the Cape' <http://batavia.polresearch.org/slavery/>;, now
hosted by B@tavia at the University of Brussels, and previously hosted
at the Slavehouse <http://batavia.rug.ac.be/slavery/. by B@tavia at the
"Centre for Third World Studies" based at the University of Ghent, in
Belgium.
The new URL of B@tavia is http://batavia.polresearch.org/
You can find the slavery sites under :
http://batavia.polresearch.org/slavery/
(use this URL for VOC links).
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