South Africa - Zulu Girls in Tribal Dress

Zulu Girls in Tribal dress in The Valley of 1000 Hills.  

This is located in the KwaZulul-Natal province of South Africa.

 

South Africa - Pretoria, Voortrekker Monument

Pretoria-Die Hoofstad
(Translation from Afrikaans, Pretoria-The Capital)

Pretoria:
The imposing Voortrekker Monument with a glimpse of the well-known Union Buildings framed by lilac jacarandas.

Die imposante Voortrekkermonument met 'n kykie van die welbekende Uniegebou en ligpers jakarandas.

This vintage postcard is unused and from South Africa.

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Pretoria is the administrative capital of South Africa. It is one of the country's three capital cities, serving as the seat of the administrative branch of government.

Pretoria is named after the Voortrekker leader Andries Pretorius, and within South Africa it is sometimes called the "Jacaranda City" due to the thousands of jacaranda trees planted in its streets, parks and gardens.

South Africa - Capetown, Table Mountain, 1947

A view of Table Mountain - Capetown, South Africa

The sender writes:
Many thanks for your card of the late President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, April 12th.  We are all well at home, with kindly greetings, love ...

This is postmarked in 1947, two years after FDR's death in 1945.

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Table Mountain is a flat-topped mountain and a prominent landmark overlooking the city of Cape Town. It is a significant tourist attraction, with many visitors using the cableway or hiking to the top.

South Africa - Durban City Hall

Durban City Hall
Surrounded by office buildings and hotels, the City Hall reflects the elegant architecture of the early 1900's.
This is postmarked in 2009.

South Africa - Mabhoko, Mpumalanga Province

I Paint My House

Anna Mahlangu paints her home for a ceremonial occasion.
Mabhoko, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa

Photo: Margaret Courtney-Clarke
2002

South Africa - Durban, Moses Maghida Stadium

Durban, South Africa

The holiday city of Durban and it's Golden Mile washed by the warm waters of the Indian Ocean with the multi-functional Moses Mabhida Stadium with it's distinctive arch in the foreground.
2010

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The Moses Mabhida Stadium is a stadium in Durban, South Africa, named after Moses Mabhida, a former General Secretary of the South African Communist Party. It is intended to be a world-class multi-use stadium.
It is one of the host stadiums for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The stadium has a capacity of 62,760 during the World Cup and 54,000 afterwards.

South Africa - Cape Town, Green Point Stadium

Cape Town
Green Point Stadium
Hoberman Collection
2010

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The Cape Town Stadium in Cape Town, South Africa is a newly built stadium that was used for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. During the planning stage it was known as the Green Point Stadium, which was the name of the previous stadium on the site, and so this name was also used frequently during World Cup media coverage.

The stadium is located in Green Point, between Signal Hill and the Atlantic Ocean, close to the Cape Town city centre and to the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, a popular tourist and shopping venue, and has a capacity of 64,100.

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Behind the stadium - UNESCO Site:

Table Mountain is a flat-topped mountain forming a prominent landmark overlooking the city of Cape Town in South Africa, and is featured in the flag of Cape Town and other local government insignia. It is a significant tourist attraction, with many visitors using the cableway or hiking to the top. The mountain forms part of the Table Mountain National Park.

South Africa - Robben Island Museum

Robben Island  - Museum
South Africa

Robben Island lies 9.678 km from Table Bay Harbour and 7.03 km from Bloubergstrand.  This Island is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site housing a museum displaying a collection of material recording the lives and times of those who fought against apartheid.
2010

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Since the end of the 17th century, Robben Island has been used to isolate certain people. The island was also used as a leper colony and animal quarantine station in the mid to late 1800's

It was here that future President of South Africa and Nobel Laureate Nelson Mandela and future South African President Kgalema Motlanthe, alongside many other political prisoners, spent decades imprisoned during the apartheid era. Current South African President Jacob Zuma was also imprisoned there for ten years.

Here is a small list of former prisoners held at Robben Island

Autshumato, one of the first freedom fighters against colonialism
Dennis Brutus, former activist and poet
Patrick Chamusso, former activist of the African National Congress
Nceba Faku, former Metro Mayor of Port Elizabeth
Mosiuoa Lekota, imprisoned in 1974, President and Leader of the Congress of the People
Nelson Mandela, African National Congress leader and former President of South Africa
Chief Maqoma, former chief who died on the island in 1873
Jeff Masemola, the first prisoner sentenced to life imprisonment in the apartheid era
Amos Masondo, current Mayor of Johannesburg
John Nyathi Pokela, co-founder and former chairman of the PAC
Joe Seremane, current chairperson of the Democratic Alliance.
Jacob Zuma, President of South Africa and leader of the African National Congress

South Africa - Durban, Ricksha on Esplanade, Real Photo Postcard

Ricksha on Esplanade
Durban

unused real photo postcard
K Ltd is in the stamp box, so this is from 1918 to 1936

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Durban is the largest city in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal. It is famous for being the busiest port in South Africa and Africa. It is also seen as one of the major centres of tourism because of the city's warm subtropical climate and extensive beaches. The municipality, which includes neighbouring towns, has a population of almost 3.5 million.

South Africa - Young Zulus, Sister and Brother

Young Zulus  -  Natal  -  South Africa
An African child makes sure her younger brother does not stray beyond the safety of the Kraal.

Jong Zoeloes  -  Natal  -  Suid-Afrika
'n Bantoekind maak seker dat haar jong boetie nie van die kraal wegdwaal nie.
1971

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Kraal is an Afrikaans and Dutch word (also used in South African English) for an enclosure for cattle or other livestock, located within an African settlement or village surrounded by a palisade, mud wall, or other fencing, roughly circular in form.

Although for a certain period of time, European South Africans and historians commonly referred to the entire settlement as a kraal.

South Africa - Cape Point Lighthouse

Cape Point - South Africa

The lighthouse at Cape Point commissioned in 1850.  Rusted wrecks along the coast attest to the untamed fury of these tempestuous seas.
2013

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Cape Point is a promontory (a prominent mass of land that overlooks lower-lying land or a body of water) at the southeast corner of the Cape Peninsula.

Fishing is good along the coast but the unpredictable swells make angling from the rocks very dangerous. Over the years scores of fishermen have been swept to their deaths from the rocky platforms by freak waves.  The bay is also famous - or infamous - for its great white sharks, which hunt the Cape Fur Seals that live in the area.

Cape point is not the southernmost point in Africa; that is Cape Agulhas, approximately 150 kilometres (93 mi) to the east-southeast.

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The Lighthouse :  (the old lighthouse is shown in the above postcard)

The new lighthouse is at a lower elevation (87 meters above sea level), for two reasons: the old lighthouse could be seen 'too early' by ships rounding the point towards the east, causing them to approach too closely. Secondly, foggy conditions often prevail at the higher levels, making the older lighthouse invisible to shipping. On 18 April 1911, the Portuguese liner Lusitania was wrecked just south of Cape Point on Bellows Rock for precisely this reason, prompting the relocation of the lighthouse.

South Africa - Pietermaritzburg, Voortrekker Museum

Displays inside the Voortrekker Museum, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
Photography by Roger de la Harpe
2011

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The Voortrekkers (Afrikaans and Dutch for pioneers, literally "those who trek ahead", "fore-trekkers") were emigrants during the 1830s and 1840s who left the Cape Colony (British at the time, but founded by the Dutch) moving into the interior of what is now South Africa.