figure By CHRIS ERASMUS "Turning from the latest worrying details of state capture, there is a lion on the loose near the town of
Beaufort West," said the television news anchor.Then she laughed, adding: "Just another day in South Africa.
The 3-1 shot headed
Beaufort West after jumping the last and galloped on strongly to come home with a lengthand-three-quarter advantage.
In this photo supplied by Flux Communications, Mina Guli, an Australian activist seeking to highlight global water shortages, walks through drought-stricken
Beaufort West, in South Africa.
* 8 June 1918: Nova star discovered by Mr Watson of
Beaufort West. Co-discoverer, Dr Anderson of Edinburgh (AGM 1918, p.1)
Thereafter Essop became mayor of
Beaufort West and served on the Western Cape Housing board until 2005.
This exhibition, the first ever to gather a significant number of Subotzky's photographs in a gallery outside of South Africa, consisted of sixteen large Lightjet C prints from the series "
Beaufort West," 2006-2007, named after a provincial town located along the N1 freeway between Cape Town and Johannesburg.
Bashaw in 1976 near
Beaufort West, Union of South Africa.
The youngster struck a chord with tenor Mark Burrows after a meeting in the boy's home town
Beaufort West, South Africa.
Dr Barnard, brought up in
Beaufort West, a dusty town 250 miles north of Cape Town, became a worldrenowned figure after carrying out the first heart transplant in 1967.
"I was born under Cape Town's mountain in Claremont, but I had to leave it when my family were forcibly removed from there under the Group Areas Act." Subsequently Gerald Morkel had a number of homes, including the dusty town of
Beaufort West in the Karoo, Grassy Park and Retreat - all designated non-white residential areas in South Africa's apartheid era.
