Change is good
Posted by Don Packett under Uncategorized on May 21 2007 at 8:11 AMMel directed me to this old map of Jo’burg. From 1897 to be exact. Looking at the segmentation, I’m glad (most of us) don’t feel that way anymore. Have a look at the hi-res version here.
Yes, change is good.
May 21st, 2007 at 9:25 am
What? They had Google Earth back then? I keep trying to zoom in. Appalling to think this was a full 51 years before the Nats came to power, and the seeds of segregation had already been so strictly sown. Great find, thanks
May 21st, 2007 at 10:33 am
I cringe. Travelling as a South African has it’s embarrassing moments. There has been more than once that I have been wrongly referred to as “a white supremacist racist pigâ€. It’s all about people’s perceptions. Maps like this explain a lot. Agreed. Change is good!
May 21st, 2007 at 3:54 pm
Oh. My. Actual.
Frightening I tell you. Bizarre even.
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:12 pm
What really amazes me; is how you got your hands on this … flip! This is like more than a 100 years old!
May 22nd, 2007 at 2:13 pm
This map is on display at the Apartheid museum.
May 26th, 2007 at 8:42 pm
What amazes is people still get shocked by this stuff. Same ol’ same ol. Speak to the people who were in that situation to really get a pulse for just how hectic it was…
November 19th, 2007 at 3:59 pm
north of fordsburg!
August 27th, 2011 at 1:25 am
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August 27th, 2011 at 2:14 am
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August 27th, 2011 at 6:00 am
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