{"id":141,"date":"2015-09-14T12:33:23","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stanfordinfo.co.za\/blog\/?p=141"},"modified":"2015-10-07T11:29:19","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T11:29:19","slug":"local-legend-mathilda-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stanfordinfo.co.za\/blog\/local-legend-mathilda-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Local legend Mathilda May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before apartheid became a law in 1948, <a href=\"http:\/\/100mg-viagra.net\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">ailment<\/a>  the residents of Stanford, <a href=\"http:\/\/cialis-order.net\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">discount<\/a>  no matter what colour or creed, <a href=\"http:\/\/cialisprofessional.net\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">treatment<\/a>  peacefully lived together in the village. Most of the brown people lived in \u201cDie Vleiland\u201d, the area to the north of historical centre and close to the Klein River.<\/p>\n<p><em>by Bea Whittaker<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>When the order came that all non-whites should be moved to south of the village, the municipal council refused to adhere to this command.\u00a0 The reply to the government was that the village folk had lived together in harmony for the past 70 years, and wished to continue to do so.\u00a0 The reply fell on deaf ears, and during 1972 &#8211; 1974 Stanford was one of the last municipalities in South Africa where the \u2018non-whites\u2019 had to vacate their homes and build themselves new homes in the area now know as Die Skema.<\/p>\n<p>One stubborn lady, Mathilda May, flatly refused to move out of her home, saying that she will only leave \u201cfeet first\u201d.\u00a0 Whenever an official called to tell her to leave, she asked for a moment to speak to \u201cThe Master\u201d, closed the door and always reappeared with the same message: she had been told by the Lord not to go.\u00a0 Mathilda May died in her home, as she wished to do, in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>The house she lived in was unfortunately demolished after her death.\u00a0 However, the foundations of the house remain as a symbol of this amazing lady who managed to defy the national government\u2019s apartheid rules.\u00a0 In honour of her legacy a street in Stanford is named after her.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_142\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stanfordinfo.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Matilda-and-Grandkids-in-Longmarket-street.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-142\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-142\" src=\"https:\/\/stanfordinfo.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Matilda-and-Grandkids-in-Longmarket-street-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"Mathilda and her grandchildren in her garden in Longmarket Street. (photo published in Portrait of a Village by Annalize Mouton) \" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stanfordinfo.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Matilda-and-Grandkids-in-Longmarket-street-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stanfordinfo.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Matilda-and-Grandkids-in-Longmarket-street-816x590.jpg 816w, https:\/\/stanfordinfo.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Matilda-and-Grandkids-in-Longmarket-street.jpg 919w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-142\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mathilda and her grandchildren in her garden in Longmarket Street.<br \/>(photo published in Portrait of a Village by Annalize Mouton)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before apartheid became a law in 1948, ailment the residents of Stanford, discount no matter what colour or creed, treatment peacefully lived together in the village. 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