Summary of an article by Lalou Meltzer in the Bulletin of the National Library of South
Africa, vol. 78, no. 1, June 2024
It is a surprise for many to learn that an apartheid administration and pass control office once existed in the residential southern suburb of Observatory in Cape Town. Its exact location has been lost in the mists of comparatively recent time. But Standard House, in which it was housed, remains today in lower Observatory, situated on the mountain side of Liesbeek Parkway— opposite the Amazon behemoth under construction on the banks of the Liesbeek River…