Tuesday, August 19, 2008

The Mosque that stopped a freeway


This is Pier Street Mosque, now marooned on a patch of lawn between the harbour and the freeway.
After forcibly removing the residents of South end in the early 70s, even the all-powerful Apartheid Government had to yield to a higher power over this.... and so our settlers freeway has a truncated offramp hanging in space, because they were not allowed to go ahead and demolish this mosque, which is considered to be on holy ground.

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