Crowd of 1 600 packs hall to hear Slabbert
- Authors: Barkhuizen, Dawn
- Date: 1987
- Subjects: Apartheid -- South Africa , Racism -- South Africa , Dakar Conference (1987, Dakar) , South Africa -- Politics and government , Institute for a Democratic Alternative for South Africa , African National Congress , Government Resistance to – South Africa , Slabbert, F. van Zyl (Frederik van Zyl), 1940-2010
- Language: English
- Type: text , clippings
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/57773 , vital:26988 , 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: Newspaper clipping reporting on the address by Dr Frederik van Zyl Slabbert (IDASA Executive Director), at the Feather Market Hall in Port Elizabeth. Dr. Slabbert addressed a crowd of 1600 interested parties, with the message of the address focussing on the outcomes of the political discussions held in Dakar, Senegal, between the 9th and 12th of July 1987, between members of IDASA and the ANC.
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- Date Issued: 1987
Gumtree 130 years old
- Authors: Jacot Guillarmod, Amy
- Date: 1985-03-01
- Subjects: Trees -- Grahamstown, South Africa , Eucalyptus robusta -- Grahamstown, South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , clippings , ephemera
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/65851 , vital:28847
- Description: Newspaper article: "Gumtree 130 years old.”
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1985-03-01
Garden giants 100 years old
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1984-03-23
Trunk call answered
- Date: 1980-08-16
- Subjects: Katimo Mulilo (Namibia) -- Photographs , Adansonia digitata -- Katimo Mulilo, South West Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: text , clippings , ephemera
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/71783 , vital:29950
- Description: Newspaper article: "Trunk call answered”. With two handwritten notes: "Also shown on S.A.B.C. Television July 1980", and, "Note some scars on bark to left of the door ...".
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1980-08-16
SA tree 250 years old
- Date: 1980-08-06
- Subjects: Trees -- Citrusdal, South Africa , Orange trees -- Citrusdal, South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , clippings , ephemera
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/71771 , vital:29949
- Description: Newspaper article: "SA tree 250 years old”
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1980-08-06
Sit under oak and think of our ancestors
- Authors: Harradine, Margaret
- Date: 1980-06-25
- Subjects: Trees -- Port Elizabeth, South Africa , Oak trees -- Port Elizabeth, South Africa , Adler, Nathaniel , Birt, W
- Language: English
- Type: text , clippings , ephemera
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/71858 , vital:29956
- Description: Newspaper article: "Sit under oak and think of our ancestors”.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1980-06-25
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".
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1980-06-16
The Herald's ghost pines
- Date: 1979-08-30
- Subjects: Araucariaceae -- South Africa – Port Elizabeth --Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth , Mangold Family , Port Elizabeth (South Africa) -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: text , clippings , ephemera
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/71900 , vital:29963
- Description: Newspaper article: "The Herald's ghost pines”
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1979-08-30
Cycads plundered
- 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."
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1979-06-08
Starting again with tree landmarks
- 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
- Authors: Babiana
- Date: 1972-07-19
- Subjects: Trees -- Nelspruit, South Africa , Acacia karroo -- South Africa -- Nelspruit
- Language: English
- Type: text , clippings , ephemera
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/71750 , vital:29947
- Description: Newspaper article: "Bold man saves tree”
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1972-07-19
A good tree is worth saving
- Date: 1971-04-07
- Subjects: Trees -- Stellenbosch, South Africa , Oak trees -- Stellenbosch, South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , clippings , ephemera
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/71757 , vital:29948
- Description: Newspaper article: "A good tree is worth saving”
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1971-04-07
Tree may be made a monument
- Authors: Herald correspondent
- Date: 1971-02-17
- Subjects: Trees -- South Africa -- Cradock -- Photographs , Oak trees -- South Africa -- Cradock -- Photographs , Scanlan, Thomas
- Language: English
- Type: text , clippings , ephemera
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/71876 , vital:29959
- Description: Newspaper article: "Tree may be made a monument”.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1971-02-17
The twin pines of Kenton
- Authors: Robinson, Tony
- Date: 1970-11-27
- Subjects: Araucariaceae -- South Africa –- Kenton-on-Sea -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa –- Kenton-on-Sea -- Photographs , Butt, Charlie
- Language: English
- Type: text , clippings , ephemera
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/71888 , vital:29961
- Description: Newspaper article: "The twin pines of Kenton”
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1970-11-27
Steeped in mystery
- 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
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 197u
Old tree 'chopped' by age and insects
- 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.”
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1969-11-24
Historic tree was just a nuisance
- Authors: Turpin, Eric
- Date: 1965-09-29
- Subjects: Trees -- Grahamstown, South Africa , Grahamstown (South Africa) -- History , Acacia karroo -- South Africa -- Nelspruit
- Language: English
- Type: text , clippings , ephemera
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/109209 , vital:33098
- Description: Newspaper article: "Historic tree was just a nuicance” discussion the removal of the mimosa tree in High Street, Grahamstown. This tree is believed to be the tree that Colonel Graham was resting under, when he decided to establish the town in the vicinity.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1965-09-29
Planted 100 years ago
- Date: 1961-07-29
- Subjects: Trees -- Port Elizabeth, South Africa , Trees -- Grahamstown, South Africa , Oak trees -- Port Elizabeth, South Africa , Oak trees -- Grahamstown, South Africa , Adler, Nathaniel , Jobson, J , Graham, John, 1788-1821
- Language: English
- Type: text , clippings , ephemera
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/71822 , vital:29953
- Description: Newspaper article: "Planted 100 years ago”. At the bottom of the article, a typed addition reads: "In January 1960 the old tree which stood just inside the gates of the Botanical Garden's Grey Street entrance was partially blown down in a gale, and ordered to be removed in toto. It had been planted by Col. Grahams, the founder of Grahamstown."
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1961-07-29
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."
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1960-08-06
The old and the new at Seymour
- Authors: Daily Dispatch (East London, South Africa)
- Date: 1960-07-21
- Subjects: Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs , Seymour (South Africa) -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: text , clippings , ephemera
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/65562 , vital:28813
- Description: Newspaper article: "The old and the new at Seymour. This oak tree is believed to have been planted in 1853 on the founding of the town. Next to it stand newly planted poles to carry ESCOM electric power to the inhabitants. Gangs of construction workers are erecting the power lines and the first line in the town has about been completed. Private contractors are wiring dwellings. To start with there will be more than 20 consumers who will be connected up to the distribution lines. Distribution will be undertaken by ESCOM.”
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1960-07-21