• THEN FELL THE AXE ON RONDEBOSCH, an autobiography, chronicling the history of the suburb from the earliest times to the present, with a focus on its north-east parts

THEN FELL THE AXE ON RONDEBOSCH, an autobiography, chronicling the history of the suburb from the earliest times to the present, with a focus on its north-east parts

: Petersen (S.)

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 336pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Cape Town 2024

ISBN: 9780796199003

 

Foreword by Wilmot James.

In the 1960s the Group Areas Act was enforced in Rondebosch, a suburb in Cape Town, which was declared a "White" residential area by the apartheid government. All other residents were forcibly removed from the neighbourhood. Sydney Petersen's father, the well-known Afrikaans-language poet and school principal S.V. Petersen, took legal advice and refused to move, resisting the family's race classification as "Coloured".

Self-published

Sydney Petersen (1948-2024) was born, grew up, and died at the family home in Park Road, Rondebosch. He trained teachers at Wesley Training College, Herat training College and Cape Peninsula University of Technology.