Innholdsfortegnelse for 2023-02-13 i Daily Voice

A SCOTTSDENE family is in mourning after losing three relatives in just one week. Two died in a car accident near Bloemfontein and yesterday morning, another relative died after a fire gutted his home. Aunt Fransiena Solomons, 60, said they are sukkeling to process the tragedies. She added that they were planning the funerals of mother and son Christaline and Jerome Louw when her nephew Graham ‘Boy’ Louw perished in a fire at his home in Didi Street in Scottsdene. Fransiena said it was as if Graham had a premonition about his death because he was happy and went to greet almal, which was unlike him. “It feels so unreal. On Saturday night we were still busy discussing Christaline and Jerome’s funeral costs and now Graham’s death further shocked…

A BOOK about the early history of Mitchells Plain has been released and is available to read for free. The book called Welcome to Mitchells Plain dives into the rich history of one of Cape Town’s largest communities, where more than a million people live. It was written by Ludmila Ommundsen Pessoa, a senior lecturer at the University of Le Havre-Normandy in France and member of GRIC (Groupe de Recherche Identités et Cultures). Pessoa, who is also a former director of Alliance Française Mitchells Plain, says she started collecting information when she arrived innie Plain 24 years ago. “My ‘special relationship’ with Mitchells Plain started in 2008 when I became the alliance’s first female director,” she explains. “I was struck by the fact that I was constantly warned ‘you’ll get…