HERSCHEL GIRLS SCHOOL, CAPE TOWN #1, (FROM THE SKETCH BY ASTRONOMER JOHN HERSCHEL OF HIS TELESCOPE UNDER CONSTRUCTION 1834)
HERSCHEL GIRLS SCHOOL, CAPE TOWN #2 (FROM THE SKETCH BY ASTRONOMER JOHN HERSCHEL OF HIS TELESCOPE UNDER CONSTRUCTION 1834)
LOOKING FOR JOHN HERSCHEL, HERSCHEL GIRLS SCHOOL, CLAREMONT, CAPE TOWN, WESTERN CAPE
LOELOERAAI’S FIRE #11, CAPE TOWN, WESTERN CAPE (FROM LOELOERAAI, 1923, CJ LANGENHOVEN)
LOELOERAAI’S FIRE #10, CAPE TOWN, WESTERN CAPE (FROM LOELOERAAI, 1923, CJ LANGENHOVEN)
LOELOERAAI’S FIRE #7, CAPE TOWN, WESTERN CAPE (FROM LOELOERAAI, 1923, CJ LANGENHOVEN)
LOELOERAAI’S FIRE #6, CAPE TOWN, WESTERN CAPE (FROM LOELOERAAI, 1923, CJ LANGENHOVEN)
LOELOERAAI’S FIRE #4, CAPE TOWN, WESTERN CAPE (FROM LOELOERAAI, 1923, CJ LANGENHOVEN)
ASTEROID, (FROM "DIE HEMELBLOM" BY JAN RABIE, 1971), PUNTJIE, WESTERN CAPE
WILD ANIMALS CONNECTING PASSAGE #2, NAVAL HILL PLANETARIUM, BLOEMFONTEIN, FREE STATE
SUNRISE NEAR BEAUFORT WEST, WESTERN CAPE
NAVAL HILL PLANETARIUM, BLOEMFONTEIN, FREE STATE
NAVAL HILL PLANETARIUM DOME, BLOEMFONTEIN, FREE STATE
LOELOERAAI’S COURTROOM #3, (FROM LOELOERAAI, 1923, CJ LANGENHOVEN) OUDTSHOORN MAGISTRATE, WESTERN CAPE
“The prisoner will finish three months of hard labour and then be sent away. Constable, remove him.”
Then Loeloeraai took his first part of the events.
“Wait, constable,” he says, “I’ve got something to say to the magistrate. Official,” he continues to the magistrate, “I don’t blame you. You are doing what you perceive as your duty. I also have a duty that I’m committed to - a commitment to myself and to those that I represent here alone. In the world that I’m coming from, we are law abiding, not under the force of the magistrates and constables and jails and chains, but out of love for one another.’
From Loeloeraai, 1923, CJ Langenhoven (Translated from the original Afrikaans)
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ZEBRAS #2, ITHEMBA LABS, CAPE TOWN
‘I look at the moon basically every night because I walk up and down between the kitchen and here. Actually when I look at the moon I can almost tell you how many days it will be until full moon or till dark moon. You pick up a lot of things about nature - like when it will rain. You can tell by the baboons and how they are screaming, by the ants carrying their food. Nature is absolutely part of my life here and I wouldn’t exchange it for the town - not at all. I mean, you can’t actually describe all of this, you got to be here to feel it - to be part of it… sort of. I just acknowledge myself as a very privileged person, to be here - just to see the sky and nature on the ground and everything all come together. You have to be here to see what is going on - to live with it. Then you start to believe how great nature is, how great God is. I mean he put everything there for us and it fits together like a puzzle.’
TJOL HERBST, TOLHUIS, R354 BETWEEN MATJIESFONTEIN AND SUTHERLAND
’I’m actually from Kuilsriver, but we moved to Paarl and I got heavy asthma - so we decided to move here. Since we’ve been here I don’t get any asthma - nature became my health-pill here. I’m relaxed. We are totally off the grid - we don’t have a landline, or cell reception and the police van doesn’t even catch his radio signal here. We are cut off from the world and like it that way - and the kids can’t bother us unnecessarily. We do go to town once a week and then they can reach us. If there is an emergency the police will come out and call us. I prefer this place, because here you can actually see the stars - you get the feeling that they are so near that you want to pick them like flowers, while in town you don’t see it as there are too many lights around you. Here you get the darkness and it is so near to nature.’
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ZEBRAS, ITHEMBA LABS, CAPE TOWN
The facility hosts different kinds of herbivores and birds on site.
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DR. PETE JONES, SENIOR RESEARCHER, ITHEMBA LABS, CAPE TOWN
Dr Pete Jones in one of the experimental area at iThemba LABS checking the end of a beam line (called beam-dump). This part is where the accelerated charged particles that haven’t interact with the target nuclei are stopped.
DR. PETE JONES #2, SENIOR RESEARCHER, ITHEMBA LABS, CAPE TOWN
Dr Pete Jones in one of the experimental area at iThemba LABS checking the end of a beam line (called beam-dump). This part is where the accelerated charged particles that haven’t interact with the target nuclei are stopped.
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