Cape Town Things to Do Tips by kenHuocj
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Groote Schuur with Devil's Peak in background
Groote Schuur Hospital was where Professor Christiaan Barnard (1922-2001)performed the first human heart transplant on the third of December 1967.
Whilst Louis Washkansky only lived for 18 days, succumbing in the end to pneumonia. His new heart beat strongly to the end. >>> this being the first Heart transplant, we in Ottawa also have a company New Heart that is already testing an Atificail heart. soon to become an everyday occurence.
>>>MUSEUM : The Charles Saint Theatre suite, has been restored to its original state and contains many items of historical interest and memorabilia relating to the first heart transplant and the history of the hospital in general.
The museum is open to the public from Monday to Friday, 09:00 to 14:00.
The entrance fee is R5 for adults and R2 for scholars.
Address: Mowbray
Directions: accesible from de waal drive
Phone: 27-21-404-5232
Colourful Bokaap Homes
It was Tweede Nuewjaarsdag, Jan 2nd, 2008, no longer a public holiday.
We'd forgotten and tried to go Zerbans @ the Garden Centre for Breakfast.
The attempted traffic's eastern diversion resulted in the familiar Kaapse Klopse (Cape Town Minstrels)music.
So park the car and join the crowds on the old forshore to watch the colourful groups parading from the Castle via Adderley and wale Streets up to the Bo Kaap.
["Our songs come from our forefathers and their fathers before. They were oppressed when they came. They came here as slaves you know and they were always the oppressed and so the only way they could express themselves was putting it in words, singing, dancing, making music and being jolly. So that the next one would think we are happy. In the meantime we are expressing our feelings about certain things"]*
Website: http://www.bokaap.co.za
from www.bataviawerf.nl
South Africa as known to most people outside the continent
has it's historical links with the Portuguese
then the Dutch
and English,
the French and Germans,
as did the Italians, Polish
etc etc etc
Afrikaans was and stil is a main LAnguage in the country
post 1995 , democratic RSA
but
do some online reading before visiting
amongst the many links i have coem across,
the following is an interesting one from the History of Malaysia
and they call the VOV - Dutch East India Company
the first multinational
we also know that Jan van Riebbeeck established Cape Town
as the refreshemnt point for the VOC ships travelling
between Holland and Batavia
the ship were all built in Batavia
Sanlam Bldng in the left
When the grounds were being excavated for the shps/tower complex, the original fresh water canal at the old waterfront was found:
the developers in conjunction with histoico-archaeilogist porcceded with architects to save the site and incorporate into building.
It is interesting to note that all the land and buildings north of this buisling to the water edge are man made.- thus the tern "Foreshore"
Address: Adderley street opposite the Station
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