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Good news

  • Date: 1985-09
  • Subjects: South Africa -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century , Boycotts -- South Africa -- Grahamstown , South Africa -- Politics and government
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , ephemera
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/57677 , vital:26980 , This item is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
  • Description: Handwritten sheet containing notices re the boycotting of white-owned shops, Grahamstown, September 1985. Transcription: “Good News[.] We are reminding you about the conditions given to white shopkeepers on the 1st day of boycotting 1.9.1985 in Grahamstown. Whats these condition about[.] We gave out a list of 40 conditions needed by black people. What do we say now[.] Because white shopkeepers see to our conditions now people can buy from white shopkeepers from the 1.11.1985. Note[.] Any white shopkeeper who ignores or rude to a black customer, his or her shop will be boycotted. Remember! Although these soldiers are not needed anymore in the township our needs are not through yet. We would like to see what is going on, and we would have another meeting where we discuss about what we can do. BNotice[.] Any leaflet which is against this one more especially which wasn’t stamped, destroy or burn it. Be careful of those people, also those speaks bad about the leaders at shebeens[.] Those are the people killing your moving struggling[.] (Transcription - W van der Walt - Rhodes University Library).
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  • Date Issued: 1985-09

Gumtree 130 years old

- Jacot Guillarmod, Amy

Garden giants 100 years old

- South African Digest

  • Authors: South African Digest
  • Date: 1984-03-23
  • Subjects: Ficus (Plants) -- South Africa -- Photographs , Fig -- South Africa -- Photographs
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , clippings , ephemera
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/74190 , vital:30272
  • Description: Newspaper article: A living landmark in Pietermaritzburg's history, a grove of trees in the heart of the Botanic Gardens, is 100 years old this year. These gnarled giants, all planted in 1884 or earlier, are "probably the most representative selection of exotic trees in South Africa". according to the curator of the Gardens, Mr Brian Tarr. He sees education as the real function of a botanical garden. Picture: Mr Tarr among the roots of a giant Morton Bay fig planted more than 100 years ago. The Natal Witness. S.A.Digest. 1984-03-23.
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  • Date Issued: 1984-03-23

Trunk call answered

SA tree 250 years old

Sit under oak and think of our ancestors

- Harradine, Margaret

Ancient oak owes longevity to plaque it stoutly bears

  • Date: 1980-06-16
  • Subjects: Trees -- Port Elizabeth, South Africa , Oak trees -- Port Elizabeth, South Africa , Adler, Nathaniel , Gibbs, Peter
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , clippings , ephemera
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/71844 , vital:29955
  • Description: Newspaper article: "Ancient oak owes longevity to plaque it stoutly bears”. Plaque reads: "This tree was planted by Nathaniel Adler, Esq. on the occasion of the visit of His Royal Highness Prince Alfred, August 6th 1860".
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  • Date Issued: 1980-06-16

The Herald's ghost pines

Cycads plundered

- South African digest

  • Authors: South African digest
  • Date: 1979-06-08
  • Subjects: Cycads -- South Africa -- Pictorial works
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , clippings , ephemera
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/73064 , vital:30148
  • Description: Newspaper article: "Cycads, South Africa's precious living fossils, are being stolen and sold to smart-set gardeners in South Africa, Japan and the United States reports The Daily News. Plants of one rare species, Encephelatus Woodii, have been offered for sale in the United States for R5 000. Botanists say cycads sell for R26 a centimeter overseas, so that a waist-high plant fetches about R2 500. Cycads are very slow-growing. Plants germinated 12 years ago at the Natal Botanical Gardens have a stem the size of a small football. Hence plants of a reasonable size may be hundreds of years old, while the rootstock from which the plants grow may be thousands of years old. There are 28 species in South Africa and seven occur in Natal. They are known in Afrikaans as Broodboom (bread tree) because Hottentots were said to make bread from the pith, after it had been left to rot for two months. A spokesman for the Natal Parks Board said the authorities could not prevent exploitation. Convictions for removing protected plants were difficult to obtain as it was almost impossible to prove where the plants came from unless the culprits were caught red-handed. When found to be in illegal possession, plants ere confiscated and planted out.Miss Jane Baxter, Natal Parks Board public relations officer, dwarfed by a giant cycad, Encephelatus Natalensis. This fine plant is thought to be between 150 and 200 years old. The Daily News. S. A. Digest. 8 June 1979."
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  • Date Issued: 1979-06-08

Oak Tree

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

  • Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
  • Date: 1977-11-19
  • Subjects: Trees -- Port Elizabeth, South Africa , Oak trees -- Port Elizabeth, South Africa , Adler, Nathaniel
  • Language: English
  • Type: jpg , ephemera , clippings
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/71866 , vital:29957
  • Description: Typed note: "Oak Tree. As at 1977.11.19. In the northwestern part of St. George's Park, Port Elizabeth against the fence of the granstand at the Union Cricket Ground is an oak tree bearing a plate: 'This tree was planted by Nathaniel Adler, Esq. on the occasion of the visit of H.R.H. Prince Alfred, August 6th 1860'. This tree has therefore been there fro 117 years, but it is a very poor specimen of oak with a weak spread of branches, certainly not a good example for its age. It is typical oak".
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  • Date Issued: 1977-11-19

Starting again with tree landmarks

- Babiana

  • Authors: Babiana
  • Date: 1972-09-06
  • Subjects: Ficus (Plants) -- South Africa -- Photographs , Fig -- South Africa -- Photographs
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , clippings , ephemera
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/73084 , vital:30151
  • Description: Newspaper article: "This huge Moreton Bay wild fig tree in the Port Elizabeth Club grounds (the tree with the biggest spread in the city?) is no doubt one of the "nice lot of seedlings" raised from seed in 1882 by Mr John Wilson. Four were planted in the corners of Trinder Square when it was laid out as a garden in 1888. As the ohter Ficus macrophylla seedlings were distributed "far and wide," the great landmark trees at the corner of Main Road and 17th Avenue, Walmer, were probably from the same lot. (Macro-phylla means long-leafed of big-leafed.)"
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  • Date Issued: 1972-09-06

Bold man saves tree

- Babiana

A good tree is worth saving

Tree may be made a monument

- Herald correspondent

The twin pines of Kenton

- Robinson, Tony

Steeped in mystery

- The Star

  • Authors: The Star
  • Date: 197u
  • Subjects: Adansonia digitata -- South Africa , Trees -- South Africa
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , clippings , ephemera
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/71981 , vital:29982
  • Description: Newspaper article published in The Star, ca. 1970 detailing the massive baobab tree, Muri Kunguluwa, found in South Africa
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  • Date Issued: 197u

Old tree 'chopped' by age and insects

- Matthews, Ray

  • Authors: Matthews, Ray
  • Date: 1969-11-24
  • Subjects: Acacia karroo -- South Africa -- Pietermaritzburg , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , clippings , ephemera
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/71921 , vital:29976
  • Description: Newspaper article: "Old tree chopped by age and insects. Age and insects have put and end to one of Maritzburg's national monuments. An acacia mimosa tree that stood in the centre lawn of the Parkside home of the Administrator of Natal since about 1800, has been chopped down for safety reasons. The stately old tree was National Monument and the plaque on the stump reads: Monuments Commission. Around this tree, Commandant A. W. J. Pretorius, member of the Volksraad and the Burgers of the Republic Natalia decided by a majority on July 5, 1842, to accept British rule.”
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  • Date Issued: 1969-11-24

Historic tree was just a nuisance

- Turpin, Eric

Planted 100 years ago

Century of growth

  • Date: 1960-08-06
  • Subjects: Trees -- Port Elizabeth, South Africa , Oak trees -- Port Elizabeth, South Africa , Adler, Nathaniel
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , clippings , ephemera
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/71834 , vital:29954
  • Description: Newspaper article: "Century of growth”. Article reads: "Lovely 20-year old Denise Baker reads a plaque on an almost forgotten oak in St. George's Park. The tree was planted 100 years ago today. The inscription reads, "This tree was planted by Nathaniel Adler, Esq. on the occasion of the visit of H.R.H. Prince Alfred, August 6, 1860."
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  • Date Issued: 1960-08-06
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