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"On Sunday 17th January 1886, two days after the Tana Baru was officially closed, the child of Amaldien Rhode, a Muslim fisherman, resident at Burke Cottages, Woodstock, died. The same afternoon at two 'o clock a funeral procession of 3000 Muslims walked along Sir Lowry Road, through Darling and Shortmarket Streets on their way to the Tana Baru Cemetery at the top of Longmarket Street, an act in direct defiance of the law."
The CCI works closely withe Tana Baru Trust to preserve the memory of those buried in the first cemetery of Muslims in South Africa. For more information, visit their website.
- Author: Abdulkader Tayob