Mysteries

On Monday June 18 1934, the Cape Times headline posters read “Pinelands Murder Mystery”. The previous morning residents had awoken from a night of heavy rain to be told that a body of a young woman was found lying face down in a deserted area alongside Forest Drive. This was first known murder in Pinelands …

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An article in the July 1993 issue of the South African magazine Signature started with the sentence “Recent excavations at Pinelands in the Cape have raised the speculation that Phoenicians may have sailed around the Cape in Ancient times.” In 1806 there were rumours that fossilised remains of an old galley had been found on …

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