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Heritage Day Celebration at Oudemolen Village

It gives me great pleasure, as a representative of the Khoe and San Active Awareness Group (KSAAG), to invite you and your family to, the Heritage Day Celebration on 24 September 2009 at the Oudemolen Village in Pinelands, 12:00pm. (The gathering will take place infront of the horse stable area on the location.)This location is of national and historic value as this was the very place where the First Khoe Dutch War in 1659 broke out (which was the first resistance against the Colonial Forces); this was also the place where part of the first separation/ segregation fence was erected to cut the First Nations from their ancestral land used for grazing of cattle. Furthermore this was also the very place where Paramount Chief Gogosoa's kraal was situated and where he came to his final resting place.

At the first ceremony held on 6 December 2008, the symbolic grave of Goringhaikhoe Paramount Chief Gogosoa was identified and stones from the symbolic grave of King Hendrik Witbooi and the actual grave of King Isak Witbooi, was brought down from Namibia by KSAAG, to be ceremonially united with the stones from the Liesbeeck River as symbol of the unification of the land and its people.

This event is furthermore a platform whereby we invite the community of Cape Town to come hear more about the pre-colonial name for Cape Town, //Hui !Gais or //Hui !Gaeb and about the vibrant indigenous cultures of this beautiful place of ours. This event is open to anyone to attend and please bring a picnic basket with.    

If you would like to add an item of song, poem, dance, story telling, etc. onto the programme please contact me on 084 961 8794.You are most welcome to do so.