What's next
Land and ownership, records, memory.
- Who owns the dealLand around Qonce, and across the Eastern Cape, keeps attracting offers: a mine, a farm, a road, a scheme. Each one comes with terms.›
- Bhisho & Maitland Road (R63)Fibre reaches the buildings, but files still travel on paper. “The system is down” is the sentence everyone knows.›
- Steve Biko Centre, GinsbergGinsberg was founded in 1901 on the west bank of the river. In 1939, Black residents of Brownlee Station in town were moved here. Steve Biko lived here under a banning order from 1973, and founded the Zimele Trust Fund in 1975.›
- Amathole Museum: HubertaHuberta the hippo walked about 1,600 km down the coast from Zululand between 1928 and 1931. Around here, people still find their way the way she did: by landmarks and by asking. “Next to KFC. Behind the post office.”›