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This document is a page about the Iziko Museums of South Africa exhibition “The Effendis of 71 Wale Street, Bo-Kaap,” currently showing at the Bo-Kaap Museum. It explains that Mahmud Fakih Emin Effendi and his son owned and occupied 71 Wale Street, that the Effendi family was forcibly removed in the late 1970s, and that the house became the Bo-Kaap Museum in 1978. It also states that a previous museum narrative linking the house to Abu Bakr Effendi (Ottoman scholar dispatched in 1862) was incorrect and that the exhibition aims to correct this misrepresentation using research and loaned artefacts from the Effendi family.
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current museum exhibitionOngoing
The Effendis of 71 Wale Street, Bo-Kaap
Visitors can attend the current exhibition at the Bo-Kaap Museum, engage with photographs and objects loaned by the Effendi family, and learn about the family’s history, their former home and their forced removal during apartheid.
- Who it is for
- visitors to the Bo-Kaap Museum and people interested in the Effendi family’s history
- How to act on it
- Visit the Bo-Kaap Museum at 71 Wale Street, Bo-Kaap and engage with the photographs and objects on display.
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In this space, we would like you to engage with photographs and objects on loan from the Effendi family – the descendants of Mahmud Fakih Effendi and Muhammed Dervish Effendi.
Facts
Places
City of Cape Town, Western Cape
Key Takeaways
- Exhibition title: The Effendis of 71 Wale Street, Bo-Kaap
- Status: Now Showing
- Museum: Bo-Kaap Museum (Iziko Bo-Kaap Museum)
- Mahmud Fakih Emin Effendi appointed Ottoman scholar at the Cape in 1894
- Muhammed Dervish Effendi followed his father
- Property: 71 Wale Street, Bo-Kaap
- Effendi family forcibly removed in the late 1970s
- 1978: house transformed into the Bo-Kaap Museum (satellite of the South African Cultural History Museum)
- Previous claim about Abu Bakr Effendi (dispatched to the Cape in 1862) found to be incorrect
- Exhibition research largely based on Dr Halim Gençoĝlu (University of Cape Town) and documents retrieved in Turkey and South Africa
- Media enquiries: Zikhona Jafta (+27 (0)21 481 3862; mediaofficer@iziko.org.za)
- Iziko Museums of South Africa
- Bo-Kaap Museum
- South African Cultural History Museum
- Mahmud Fakih Emin Effendi
- Muhammed Dervish Effendi
- Mariam (widow of Muhammed Dervish Effendi)
- Abu Bakr Effendi
- Dr Halim Gençoĝlu
- University of Cape Town
- Ottoman Caliphate