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Whereas engaged on building of the brand new Bo-Kaap market, the Metropolis of Cape City’s Financial Progress Directorate’s contractor stumbled upon a uncommon, historic discover.
In keeping with the Metropolis, through the building course of, the contractor uncovered a stone effectively on the Bo-Kaap property related to the nationwide heritage website, the Spolander Home. The effectively is alleged to be greater than 150 years outdated.
“Upon discovering the effectively, our officers instructed the contractor to right away stop work. On affirmation that the effectively was certainly archaeological, officers from Heritage Western Cape had been notified. Following cautious inspection, the Metropolis’s heritage officers labored with the development crew to safe the effectively and surrounding space and permit growth to proceed,” Alderman James Vos, the Metropolis’s Mayoral Committee Member for Financial Progress stated.
“The effectively is situated on a portion of the farm, Schotsekloof, initially granted in 1707. The farm underwent a number of subdivisions and within the 1830s the remaining portion of the farm, on which the effectively was discovered, belonged to Mr Pentz. Within the Thirties, the property was expropriated as a part of the so-called Slums Clearance Act of 1934.” the Metropolis revealed.
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