Roeland Street has been a part of Cape Town's from the long time ago. This street, which is also known as the most valuable of the three red properties in the Monopoly board game, has treasures and businesses ranging from motor vehicle services to creative graphic art studios, among other things. It begins directly in front of Parliament, where St. John's Road and Plein Street meet, on the eastern side of town. It is filled with interesting people backpackers, tourists and locals and is highly favored by students, because most of the places there offers them a 10 percent discount. Above is the Cape Town fire Station situated in Roeland Street. Roeland Street is a street that bustles with the activity of businesses, schools, restaurants and even a fire department
Although the Roeland street seem like a great, reserved street but there are stories we have heard that had fortunately left our bodies down. The things that had happened there that might make us not see Roeland street the same ever again.As we all know its not always sweets and roses. In every smile there is always pain and misery that is underneath that smile. The tragedy has once happened in one of the hotels in Roeland Street known as Kimberly hotel. On Sunday, at around 9 p.m., a theatre and performance arts student was celebrating her birthday at the Kimberley Hotel when she died after falling from the first-floor balcony. In another world I would have said this tragedy was a family curse since as we read this girl’s story, we find that the girl’s parents were stranded in Italy because the doctors had advised Dominic the girl's father not to travel after he broke seven ribs in a car accident last week. Maybe had the road crash took one of the parents, the girl would have been alive even today.
By Sindisiwe Dlamini: The tragedy didn’t end with the UCT girl but Roomes, a 26 year old, from Chanteclair in Eversdal, became trapped in a lift in the city center. In the Hip Hop Plaza apartment building on Roeland Street, Roomes, an electrical engineer with Foschini, met a group of friends. When the lift became stuck about 30cm before the third storey, he was in it with two men and two women. They were on their way to Observatory for a night out. He attempted to climb to the third floor but became disoriented and fell into the space between the lift and the lift shaft's wall. This tragedy was supposed to be investigated since Martin Langemann of the Kone lift company in Cape Town,the company which installed the lift said the lift was not supposed to open when someone forced it open with his hands.
By Sindisiwe Dlamini:Catastrophes tend to occur in groups of three. The persistence of this belief is difficult to explain, given how easily the case for it can be disproved. Even in this case it has happened that the catastrophes has happened, even though we are not sure of other tragedies that has took place in Roeland street. For the fact that we only find these three shows that truly the ghosts of Roeland were in a fight.
There was once a place
on Roeland Street known as Cape Town's own Black Hole, Roeland prison, which
was intended to be a model of good taste for the city's residents. It is said
that if it hadn't been closed and replaced with a modern institution at
Pollsmoor, this landmark would have been 117 years old. For obvious reasons, we
do believe that there are many people that died in that prison, which we won’t
count one by one but they all took place in the Roeland prison. When the influenza
epidemic in 1918 took place many wardens and prisoners died. On execution days,
crowds would gather outside the prison to watch the flagpole. Minutes after the
execution, a black flag would always fly.
By Sindisiwe DlaminiWhat we don't know or understand can make us fearful, which can lead to the development of anxiety disorders. Fear can be triggered by what we don't know or understand, and fear can lead to the development of superstitious behaviors and rituals.That what is happening to us, we have been overcrowned by the fear of the deaths that has happened in Roeland street. Death and the dead have always frightened us as humans. It appears that no matter how good a person was in life or how much they were loved, when they died, they became a target of intense fear. People were afraid that the dead who had loved us in life could now harm us or even hasten our death as a result of this fear.
