Cape Town's garden of good and evil
October 29, 2020 11:33 AM Subscribe
"I still love this place as is, because I saw this place grow from not having a [garden] centre, not having a conservatory, and a protea garden and so on ... So I saw this garden grow, but I didn't really grow with it. White people, they took ownership of it, and we didn't [do] that as yet. And there's a difference, because once you take ownership of anything, something changes: 'No, this is ours. We should look after it better.' And no one really explains that to you."
By Kim M Reynolds.
By Kim M Reynolds.
A good read, thank you! I hope these ideas for educating the public and providing context become more widespread.
There is a local cemetery in my town that does tours in October, with volunteer docents dressed up as some of the locally famous people. The cemetery was segregated for most of its history. All the performers and histories are from the white section. This was not addressed on the tour.
posted by emjaybee at 9:50 PM on October 29, 2020
There is a local cemetery in my town that does tours in October, with volunteer docents dressed up as some of the locally famous people. The cemetery was segregated for most of its history. All the performers and histories are from the white section. This was not addressed on the tour.
posted by emjaybee at 9:50 PM on October 29, 2020
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