Dag vriende QUICKQUIP:-" If you are going to hold someone down you are going to to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression." - Toni MORRISON Poet and Author. ON THIS DAY:-1480:- Ottoman troops beheaded 800 Christians for refusing to convert to Islam. 1779:- Johannes Jacobus Janse VAN RENSBURG (Lang Hans), leader of one of the early Voortrekker treks, is born at Sundays River, Cape Colony. His entire trek , except two children saved by a Zulu warrior, was massacred at Inhambane in July 1836 by an impi of Manukosi. 1871:- Tiyo SOGA, missionary and first ordained Black minister who published a Xhosa translation of the first part of Bunyan's 'Pilgrim's Progress' and was a member of the board for the revising of the Xhosa Bible, dies at Butterworth. 1873:- Author and poet Cornelis Jacob LANGENHOVEN, who penned 'Die Stem' is born in Ladismith in the Cape. DEATHS:-None. MEMORIAM:- GOLD Marge 1925 - 2016. Mother, mother-in-law and grandmother. OLUFSEN Judith Maxine + 12 Aug 2016. Wife, Mother and grandmother of Rob, Caro, Debby, Tammy, Jonty, Samantha. Gegroet uit Durban Rita Quebbemann