Spes Bona | Western & Northern Cape Aesthetics

Joined January 2025
Signal Hill, Cape Town, South Africa. 🌸 🎥Andrew Harvard
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Cape International retweeted
112km van grondpad en paadjies. Dit was die mooiste pad en reg hier naby my huis. Trips is nog te kort. Hierdie ou plaas huisies is my gunsteling.
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🇷🇺🇿🇦 On 12 Oct 1899, Boer forces entered British Cape Colony & Natal opening hostilities in the Second Anglo-Boer War. ❗️ British scorched-earth tactics & concentration camps claimed thousands of civilian lives. t.me/RussianEmbassyZA/16599
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Remains of SS Kakapo, Noordhoek
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At 17, Deneys Reitz rode out with a Transvaal commando at the start of the 2nd Boer War. He fought at Spion Kop, then joined Smuts’s raid deep into the British-held Cape Colony. He refused to accept British rule after the war and self-exiled in Madagascar.
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He later returned, fought for Britain in WWI, and became a South African statesman.
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Cape Rebels, colonials from the Cape Colony who joined the Boer Forces. Once captured they were tried for high treason. Some were executed either by hanging or the firing squad. Others were sentenced to life imprisonment on Hawkins Island, Bermuda and St Helena.
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When we have each other we have everything
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British and Dutch naval battle off the Cape of Good Hope
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