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Alemia Hassant, a Mahometan woman, commonly called Ou Motje, and believed to be the last of the old
Cape slaves, died in Stellenbosch in 1924. https://twitter.com/a_briana/status/1348146894648848385
Alemia Hassant, a Mahometan woman, commonly called Ou Motje, and believed to be the last of the old
Cape slaves, died in Stellenbosch in 1924. https://twitter.com/a_briana/status/1348146894648848385
Her age was estimated at 110, so when the Cape slaves were liberated she would have been a girl
of about 11 years old. Ou Motje was a native of Mozambique so she would most likely have been referred to as a 'Mazbieker'.
of about 11 years old. Ou Motje was a native of Mozambique so she would most likely have been referred to as a 'Mazbieker'.
βMazbiekersβ was the name given to slaves that came from a wide range of countries in East and Southern Central Africa to the slaver station in Mozambique and then on to the Cape of Good Hope where they largely were put to work in the agriculture and public works sectors.
In 1910 Lydia βOu Tamelytjieβ Williams also known as the Saint of District Six passed on at the age of 90. She was born into slavery, her father being a Mazbieker slave. Lydia was a young girl of 14 when slavery in the Cape was abolished. It is important to note that even after
slavery was officially abolished in the Cape, slaves were forced to work a 4 year period of "apprenticeship". The government did not provide any land or money to help freed slaves to set up businesses on farms.
Many slaves were forced to return to their previous owners or to other farmers as wage laborers. Even those who worked on mission stations had to work as casual laborers on surrounding farms.
