In the Northernmost part of the Western Cape, along the Northwestern plain, lies a relatively isolated Village located in the Knersvlakte Region, called Bitterfontein. Bitterfontein forms part of the Southern section of Namaqualand and its name is derived from the bitter and brackish-quality of its water.
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Lillian Diedericks was born in 1925 in the oldest part of New Brighton township, Red Location (near the railway line), in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape. Her family, classified as Coloured, were forcefully removed from their home by the apartheid government in 1940 when it became a Black only zone.
One of the founding figures of Postcolonial Studies, Benita Parry, died after a short illness on 19 January 2020. In a series of brilliant essays written in the 1980s and 1990s, subsequently re-published as Postcolonial Studies. A Materialist Critique (2004), Parry invigorated literary-theoretical debates about the cultures of (neo-)colonialism with her sophisticated Marxist analysis.
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Rietfontein is a Town in ZF Mgcawu District Municipality, in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa. It functions as the Rietfontein Border post with Namibia, during the day hours of 08:00-16:30, that gives access to and from South-East Namibia, via Aroab on the C 16 Main Road.
