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I think the sections "Ostrich" and "Ostrich again" are not named in a standard manner. What should they be renamed to? SpaceCaptain 22:35, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)

What about "Ostrich (Starter)" and "Ostrich (Main Course)"? :-D Elf-friend 22:45, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Something less funny, please. SpaceCaptain 16:39, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Gee, you don't have a sense of humour? Anyway, if you checked the article before writing your reply above, you'll see that those two sections already have new headings. But if the headings bothered you so much in the first place, why didn't you change them? Elf-friend 20:24, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

So many articles about areas of the Western Cape start with the mantra that the "bushmen were the original inhabitants". This is probably a knee-jerk reaction to all of those years of indoctrination by the colonialists and Nationalists- about how Dr. Livingston "discovered" the "Victoria Falls" and so on. That was all twaddle of course but there is no point in replacing one heap of dingo's kidneys with another. If you want to displace the Dutch East India Company from the pages of history, then at least get your facts right. In many caves in the Western Cape and in river terraces along various mountain streams such as the Elandspad near du Toit's Koof, there are megalithic hand axes and other items that show that the "original inhabitants" of the Cape were not Bushmen. (And no, Maude, I am sorry to disappoint the ANC but they were not Xhosas either). They may not even have belonged to the 'human race' as it is defined today. They may have belonged to the species Homo habilis, or something similar. Pre-human and human occupation of the Cape goes back over a million years. We still know pitifully little about these "aboriginal" people but it is a denial of history to sweep them under the carpet. We all accept that the guys who first gazed up at Paarl Rock and down the valley of the Breede River were not sent by van Riebeeck. But they sure as hell weren't "Bushmen" either...

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I'm leaving the link that's currently in the article to the disambiguation page because anything else would be original research. I have no way of knowing what the article I sourced the statement from meant by "Transvaal". Willhesucceed (talk) 14:45, 29 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Does anyone have information on the orgins of Oudtshoorn's name. I believe it's Afrikaans for "old horn" O Lourde (talk) 01:41, 13 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Oudtshoorn was named in honour of Pieter van Reede van Oudtshoorn, who was named after the village of Oudshoorn in Holland. Wiktionary says that Oudshoorn was derived from a Middle Dutch personal name "Out" and "hoorn" in this context meaning bend or corner - the village is on a bend in the Old Rhine. - htonl (talk) 21:36, 13 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

In 105.9.174.162 (talk) 15:14, 6 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]