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The Greatest Threat to the Kaapse Klopse Has Never Been Its History—It Has Been the Institutions That Keep Rewriting It

Staff Writer25 July 202625 July 2026

Opinion Written by Heinrich Muller I recently stumbled upon a post on facebook published by a Henri Fortuin about the “Cape Coons” he grew up with and while reading through…

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Written in Sand, Saved in the Cloud: The Cape’s History in the Digital Age

Staff Writer24 July 202624 July 2026

An Opinion Piece by Driko Maritz When Jan van Riebeeck’s ships dropped anchor in Table Bay in 1652, the Cape had already been inhabited, traversed, and known for tens of…

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The history of the Cape Jewish Chronicle

Staff Writer22 May 202619 July 2026

The Cape Jewish Chronicle (CJC) is a monthly print and digital publication serving the Jewish community of Cape Town, South Africa. It launched in late 1984 (first issue around November)…

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The Greatest Threat to the Kaapse Klopse Has Never Been Its History—It Has Been the Institutions That Keep Rewriting It

Written in Sand, Saved in the Cloud: The Cape’s History in the Digital Age

The history of the Cape Jewish Chronicle

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