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Pheli Rock is a movement started by eight young individuals from Atteridgeville with a vision to create a harbour for all things arts under one unit. The movement doesn’t discriminate nor does it put limitations on individuals’ creativeness and is not only for the people of Pheli, as the name might suggest, but has over 200 registrants on its database spread across all the areas and townships of Tshwane. -
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Are you embarrassed of your disabled family member or relative? Do you still look down on your wheelchair bound or blind neighbour? Are these people with special needs still being kept chained in back rooms, hidden away and not allowed even basic human rights? Do you truly believe that this is what they need for them to be “safe”? An affirmative response to any one of these questions borders on utter barbarism and only the heartless will impose such unspeakable cruelty of the worst imaginable crime against a fellow human being regardless of one’s situation.
There are a number of places of national and historic significance within and around Pretoria including townships. The places include museums, parks, historic monuments and a number of recreational and heritage sites. This feature aims to showcase some of the Places of Interest Pitori has to offer.
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Along with a few other historically significant structures and heritage sites spread across Tshwane, like the Union Buildings, the newly renamed Ditsong National Museum of Natural History and the more meaningful Freedom Park, the Church Square is by far the most commonly famed and the one I can easily point you exact directions to, better coordinated than GPS, from anywhere in the city, even with eyes closed. Die Kerkplein to its Afrikaners founders of 1855 marks what once the Central Business District (CBD) of the city was in its early formation years. Read more... Add new comment
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The Late Jafta “Jeff” Kgalabi Masemola aka “Tiger of Azania” (from Atteridgeville)- a Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) stalwart and founding member of POQO (PAC’s armed military wing) was the first person to be sentenced to life imprisonment on Robben Island under apartheid law in 1963. He and 14 other Pretoria PAC activists were charged with conspiracy to commit sabotage and were the first few prisoners on Robben Island. Masemola was the longest serving political prisoner in modern history having spent 28 years on Robben Island.
















