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Authors: Eastern Province Herald
Date: 1959-01-20
Subjects: Ficus (Plants) -- South Africa -- Photographs , Fig -- South Africa -- Photographs
Language: English
Type: text , clippings , ephemera
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/73099 , vital:30152
Description: Newspaper article: "Plant may send spire toppling. Few of the people who attend services at Grahamstown's historical Methodist Commemoration Church know that one of the five spires which top the old building is in danger of being destroyed - by a plant. The plant, a wild fig which takes root in any foreign substance and grows without soil, is slowly sending its long, leaf-tipped shoots along the delicate cement-work of the spire".
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Date Issued: 1959-01-20

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

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

Authors: Argus (Cape Town, South Africa)
Date: 1956-08-05
Subjects: Encephalartos -- South Africa -- Photographs , Cycadaceae -- South Africa -- Photographs
Language: English
Type: text , clippings , ephemera
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/75779 , vital:30464
Description: Newspaper article: "A 300-year-old bread palm in the grounds of Government House, believed to be the oldest imported tree in the Union, is soon to be moved to make room for additions to the buildings of Parliament.”
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Date Issued: 1956-08-05

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