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From: "David Bossenger" <>
Subject: RE: Kramat [of Sh Yusuf of Macassar]
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2001 21:19:44 +0200
In-Reply-To: <004301c1647f$49fc9a00$76ce19c4@new.co.za>


Hi Kammie,
Could you let me know off list where the other seventeen are please. I am
aware of the six at Constantia, Oude Kraal, two on Signal Hill, Robben
Island and Faure. Although a born and bred Capetonian, who alas was in
exile in the old Transvaal for twenty years, I have also never heard of
Mosterts Bay

-----Original Message-----
From: Kammie [mailto:]
Sent: 03 November 2001 17:50
To:
Subject: Re: Kramat [of Sh Yusuf of Macassar]


Hi Lynn


According to M Jaffer & R Essack, editors [1996] : One of the most
well-known political leaders, was Sheikh Yusuf of Macassar who was banished
to a farm Zandvliet, near Faure, along the coast of False Bay. Sheikh Yusuf
of Macassar arrived on board the flute, the VOETBOOG with entourage of 49
Muslims in 1694. Sh. Yusuf of Maccassar known as Abadin Tadia Tjoessoep was
a maternal nephew of the King Biset of Goa. Although the local Cape
religious leadership, portrayed Sheikh Yusuf of Macassar as a Sufi spiritual
leader during the Apartheid years, contemporary Indonesians is familiar with
the historical personality of Sheikh Yusuf of Macassar as a freedom fighter
who resisted Dutch Colonial occupation for almost ten [10] years in the
jungle, before being eventually captured and exiled to the Cape of Good Hope
via another VOC trading station, the island of Ceylon. It is revealing to
note that contemporary Indonesians started their War of Liberation in 1949
on the steps of Sheikh Yusuf of Macassar's shrine at Lakiung in Goa. Another
"Dargah" (or shrine) in memory of Sheikh Yusuf of Macassar is maintained by
Creole Malays of present day Sri Lanka which reflects the trans-indian ocean
stature of Sh. Yusuf of Macassar. I 1994, the Muslims of South Africa
celebrated the 300 year establishment of Islam in South Africa by
commemorating the arrival of the founding father, Sh Yusuf of Macassar as
the epoch event at the Kramat/Tomb/Shrine at Faure in April 1994. Sh Yusuf
Shrine forms part of 23 karamat encircling the Cape Peninsula from Faure
across to Robben Island. According to popular Cape Muslim folklore, the
shrines of these saints serves as protection against earthquakes, and other
calamities striking the Western Cape !


PS Can you please indicate where this Mosterts Bay is located as a former
Malay Fishing Village ?
Source : M Jaffer & R Essack , editors [1996/2001] : Guide to the Kramats of
the Western Cape , 2nd revised edition, ISBN 0-620-19889-3, published by
the 'Cape Mazaar [Kramat] Society'.
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Cheers from Kammie,Cape Town (i.e. "the tavern of the seven seas") , SOUTH
AFRICA
email :
website : 'Slavery @ the Cape' = http://batavia.rug.ac.be/slavery/
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Don.MacLeod" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2001 10:25 AM
Subject: Kramat??


> Excuse my ignorance/lack of Afrikaans knowledge but am reading a book ....
>
> Mostert's Bay was a Malay fishing village, peopled by followers of the
great Sheik Joseph, holiest of all the holy men who were exiled at the Cape
late in the 17th century, and whose kramat stands at Fature....
>
> Is it a statue/monument?
>
> Kind regards
> Lynn MacLeod
>
>
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