{"id":3575,"date":"2013-10-18T08:42:46","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T08:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arnistonalive.org.za\/history-geskiedenis"},"modified":"2024-12-13T18:23:43","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T18:23:43","slug":"geskiedenis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/arnistonalive.org.za\/af\/info\/geskiedenis","title":{"rendered":"Geskiedenis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; bg_img_2=&#8221;https:\/\/arnistonalive.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/resort-02.jpg&#8221; use_background_color_gradient_2=&#8221;off&#8221; background_color_gradient_direction_2=&#8221;105deg&#8221; background_color_gradient_stops_2=&#8221;rgba(255,255,255,0.65) 0%|rgba(255,255,255,0) 76%&#8221; background_color_gradient_start_2=&#8221;rgba(255,255,255,0.65)&#8221; background_color_gradient_end_2=&#8221;rgba(255,255,255,0)&#8221; background_color_gradient_start_position_2=&#8221;0%&#8221; background_color_gradient_end_position_2=&#8221;76%&#8221; background_color_gradient_overlays_image_2=&#8221;on&#8221; 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Skulphope, wat implemente van klip en die beendere van visse, robbe, voels, skilpaaie en klein diere bevat, is &#8216;n bewys van die mense se waarskynlik nomadiese verblyf in die omgewing. Skaapbeendere uit &#8216;n latere tydperk dui op besoeke van mense met &#8216;n lewenstyl wat minder nomadies, dus meer gevestig is. Ander artefakte suggereer dat daar van die sestiende eeu af dalk &#8216;n mate van kontak tussen die nomadiese Khoisan en die oorlewendes van skipbreuke was. Sewentiende-eeuse rekords dui daarop dat Khoekhoe-stamme met hulle vee soms vir kort rukkies in die strandveld naby die kus vertoef het.<\/p>\n<p>In die sewentiende eeu het Europese setlaars die Overberg begin verken en hulle vee in die omgewing laat wei. Teen 1708 het veeboere reeds weiregte verkry by Langefontein, die plaas waarop Bredasdorp 140 jaar later ontwikkel sou word. In 1815, toe die Arniston gestrand het, was daar &#8216;n aantal leenplase in die omstreke van wat vandag Arniston \/ Waenhuiskrans is. Teen daardie tyd het die nomadiese stamme meesal al uit die deel van die kus verdwyn. Die ses oorlewendes van die Arniston het teen die kus op gestap, tot by die Breerivier en terug, voordat Jan Swart, die seun van die boer op die plaas Elandsvallij, op hulle afgekom het. Hulle is per ossewa na Kaapstad geneem.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arnistonalive.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Geskiedenis_Vissermanne.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arnistonalive.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Geskiedenis_Vissermanne.jpg\" width=\"740\" height=\"522\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4163 alignnone size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arnistonalive.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Geskiedenis_Vissermanne.jpg 740w, https:\/\/arnistonalive.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Geskiedenis_Vissermanne-480x339.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 740px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In 1838 is Arniston Downs, die leenplaas waarop Waenhuiskrans \/ Arniston later gevestig sou word, as vaste eiendom aan die vennootskap Reitz, van Breda en Joubert oorgedra. Dirk Uys het die plaas in 1880 gekoop. In 1894 het die broers Francis, Julian en John Pratt die eienaars geword. Teen daardie tyd was Arniston \/ Waenhuiskrans reeds &#8216;n vakansieplek. Die eerste bewys hiervan is &#8216;n inskrywing in H.W. van Breda van Zeekoegat se dagboek in 1860. Hy skryf dat hy sy huis by die see vir &#8216;n maand aan Thomas Uys verhuur het teen twee sjielings en &#8216;n sikspens, sodat Uys by Wagenhuiskrantz kan visvang.<\/p>\n<p>Teen 1850 het die eerste lede van die huidige vissersgemeenskap van Arniston \/ Waenhuiskrans hulle in die gebied begin vestig. Teen 1870 het die vyf oorspronklike gesinne al tot &#8216;n groter groep van dertig gesinne aangegroei. Die eerste opgetekende verwysing na hierdie vissersgemeenskap verskyn in 1868, toe H.W. van Breda in sy dagboek skryf dat hy oesterskulpe van James Murtz by Wagenhuiskrantz\u009d ontvang het in ruil vir kos. Dokumente van &#8216;n saak in die Kaapse Hooggeregshof in 1905 dui daarop dat vyf gesinne hulle kort na 1850 hier gevestig het. Mondelinge geskiedenisbronne meen die vyf oorspronklike gesinne in die nedersetting was van Swellendam afkomstig. Die vroegste lede van die vissersgemeenskap was na bewering afstammelinge van die Hessequa en van vrygemaakte slawe.<\/p>\n<p>In 1905 het die Pratt-broers beplan om &#8216;n vakansiedorp op hulle grond te ontwikkel en die vissersgemeenskap te verskuif. Die vissersgemeenskap het hulle teruggesit. Met behulp van &#8216;n inwoner van Bredasdorp, ene Roos, het hulle regsadvies van &#8216;n prokureur in Caledon ingewin en &#8216;n versoekskrif by die Kaapse goewerneur-generaal ingedien. &#8216;n Regter in die Kaapse Hooggeregshof het die partye beveel om &#8216;n skikking te oorweeg. Die uiteinde was &#8216;n ooreenkoms wat bepaal het dat die vissersgemeenskap die grond van die hedendaagse historiese vissersdorp teen die nominale bedrag van een sjieling sou koop. Die vyf gesinne wat hulle eerste in die gebied gevestig het, het elkeen &#8216;n erf in die nuwe dorpsontwikkeling ontvang. Daar is aanvaar dat Jan Hopie, Piet Maritz, George Murtz, Hendrik Newman en Michiel Dyers almal in 1905 reeds meer as 50 jaar lank in die omgewing gewoon het.<\/p>\n<p>Voor 1905 het die vissermanne van vandag se Romanstrand, wat toe Oubaai genoem is, van wal gesteek. Hulle het meestal in huise gewoon wat versprei was deur wat vandag bekend staan as die Ou Dorp. Na die 1905-ooreenkoms het hulle stelselmatig na die huidige vissersdorp begin skuif. Hulle het begin om die deel van die strand te gebruik waar die hawe tans gelee is en hulle het in klein seilskepe uitgevaar. Die vissermanne het net visgevang waar hulle van die strand af gesien sou kon word. Sodra die eerste seil gespan is na &#8216;n dag se visvang, het die resies terug na die hawegebied toe gewoonlik begin. Hoe langer jy gevang het, hoe groter was jou vangs, maar die eerste boot wat aan wal gaan, het die grootste moontlikheid gehad om sy hele vangs te verkoop. Die eerste gemotoriseerde vaartuie het in die laat 1920&#8217;s verskyn. Die skeepshelling is in 1936 gebou.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;Testimonial&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row use_custom_gutter=&#8221;on&#8221; make_equal=&#8221;on&#8221; padding_top_bottom_link_1=&#8221;true&#8221; padding_top_bottom_link_2=&#8221;false&#8221; padding_top_bottom_link_3=&#8221;false&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; width_phone=&#8221;50px&#8221; max_width_phone=&#8221;1280px&#8221; z_index_tablet=&#8221;500&#8243; box_shadow_horizontal_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; box_shadow_vertical_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; box_shadow_blur_tablet=&#8221;40px&#8221; box_shadow_spread_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; background__hover_enabled=&#8221;on&#8221; column_structure=&#8221;1_2,1_2&#8243;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;In 1922 &#8230;&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; text_font=&#8221;Open Sans||||||||&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;2em&#8221; header_2_font=&#8221;Gilda Display||||||||&#8221; header_2_font_size=&#8221;60px&#8221; header_2_line_height=&#8221;1.2em&#8221; header_3_font=&#8221;Gilda Display||||||||&#8221; header_3_font_size=&#8221;26px&#8221; header_3_line_height=&#8221;1.6em&#8221; background_color=&#8221;#0f87ff&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;dark&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;|||-40px&#8221; custom_margin_tablet=&#8221;|||0px&#8221; custom_margin_phone=&#8221;&#8221; custom_margin_last_edited=&#8221;on|desktop&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;100px|40px|100px|40px|true|true&#8221; custom_padding_tablet=&#8221;60px||60px||true&#8221; custom_padding_phone=&#8221;&#8221; custom_padding_last_edited=&#8221;on|desktop&#8221; header_2_font_size_tablet=&#8221;40px&#8221; header_2_font_size_phone=&#8221;30px&#8221; header_2_font_size_last_edited=&#8221;on|phone&#8221; header_3_font_size_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; header_3_font_size_phone=&#8221;22px&#8221; header_3_font_size_last_edited=&#8221;on|desktop&#8221; z_index_tablet=&#8221;500&#8243; text_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; text_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; text_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=&#8221;1px&#8221; link_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; link_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; link_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=&#8221;1px&#8221; ul_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; ul_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; ul_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=&#8221;1px&#8221; ol_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; ol_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; ol_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=&#8221;1px&#8221; quote_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; quote_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; quote_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=&#8221;1px&#8221; header_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; header_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; header_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=&#8221;1px&#8221; header_2_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; header_2_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; header_2_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=&#8221;1px&#8221; header_3_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; header_3_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; header_3_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=&#8221;1px&#8221; header_4_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; header_4_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; header_4_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=&#8221;1px&#8221; header_5_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; header_5_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; header_5_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=&#8221;1px&#8221; header_6_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; header_6_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; header_6_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=&#8221;1px&#8221; box_shadow_style=&#8221;preset3&#8243; box_shadow_vertical=&#8221;26px&#8221; box_shadow_blur=&#8221;80px&#8221; box_shadow_spread=&#8221;-10px&#8221; box_shadow_color=&#8221;rgba(15,135,255,0.5)&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; background_color__hover=&#8221;#3d9eff&#8221; background__hover_enabled=&#8221;on&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h3>In 1922 is Arniston \/ Waenhuiskrans tot &#8216;n dorp verklaar. Beduidende toenames in die dorp se grootte het in 1936, 1967, 1974 en 1989 voorgekom. Die twee name wat vir die dorp gebruik word, Arniston en Waenhuiskrans, het in 1981 die amptelike dorpname geword. Hierdie is die enigste dorp in Suid-Afrika met twee name. 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Walter Jeppe was deurslaggewend vir die stigting van die Unie. 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Die plaaslike regering het beoog om die dorpie te verskuif. Die oenskynlike rede daarvoor was agteruitgang en &#8216;n groot agterstand op die betaling van eiendomsbelasting. Bewaringsgesindes het geld ingesamel om die uitstaande belasting te betaal en die dorpie te vernuwe. In 1984 is dit tot &#8216;n nasionale erfenisterrein verklaar. Die Waenhuiskrans Kultuurlandskap is in 2003 as &#8216;n Graad 1 Nasionale Erfenislandskap geklassifiseer.<\/p>\n<p>Waenhuiskrans \/ Arniston is omring deur vlaktes wat nou geleidelik gekonsolideer word sodat dit deel sal uitmaak van &#8216;n bewaringsgebied wat van Kaap Agulhas tot by Kaap Infanta sal strek. Hierdie bewaringsgebied sal die byna 36 000 hektaar van De Hoop insluit, waar Krygkor in 1984 &#8216;n missieltoetsbaan opgerig het. &#8216;n Mariene reservaat wat twaalf kilometer die see in strek, is in 1986 in die lewe geroep.<\/p>\n<p>Die suidelikste punt van Afrika staan al sedert 1502 bekend as Kaap Agulhas. 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Skulphope, wat implemente van klip en die beendere van visse, robbe, voels, skilpaaie en klein diere bevat, is &#8216;n bewys van die mense se waarskynlik nomadiese verblyf in die omgewing. 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seventeenth century indicate that Khoekhoe tribes sometimes lingered with their cattle in the \u201cstrandveld\u201d near the coast for short periods of time.\r\n\r\nIn the seventeenth century, European settlers started to explore the Overberg and let their cattle graze in the region.\u00a0 By 1708, cattle farmers had already procured grazing rights at Langefontein, the farm on which Bredasdorp was developed 140 years later.\u00a0 In 1815, when the Arniston stranded, there were a number of loan farms in the vicinity of what is Arniston\/Waenhuiskrans today.\u00a0 By then, the nomadic tribes had disappeared from this part of the coast.\u00a0 The six survivors of the Arniston walked up the coast to the Breede River and back before they were discovered by Jan Swart, the son of the farmer of Elandsvallij.\u00a0 They were then taken to Cape Town by ox-wagon.\r\n\r\nIn 1838, Arniston Downs, the loan farm on which Waenhuiskrans\/Arniston was later established, was granted to the partnership Reitz, van Breda and Joubert as a private property.\u00a0 Dirk Uys bought it in 1880.\u00a0 In 1894, the brothers Francis, Julian and John Pratt became the owners.\u00a0 By then Arniston\/Waenhuiskrans was already being used as a vacation spot.\u00a0 The first evidence of this is from an entry in the diary of H.W. van Breda of Zeekoegat in 1860.\u00a0 He wrote in his diary that he had rented out his house at the seaside to Thomas Uys for a month for the price of two shillings and sixpence, so that Uys could fish at \u201cWagenhuiskrantz\u201d.\r\n\r\nIn about 1850, the first members of the present fishing community of Arniston\/Waenhuiskrans settled in the region.\u00a0 By 1870, the five original families had grown into a larger group of at least thirty families.\u00a0 The first documented reference to this fishing community appears in 1868, when H.W. van Breda wrote in his diary that he had received oyster shells from James Murtz at \u201cWagenhuiskrantz\u201d in exchange for food.\u00a0 Documents from a Cape High Court case from 1905 indicate that five families settled here some time after 1850.\u00a0 Oral history sources have it that the five original families in the settlement came from Swellendam.\u00a0 Allegedly, the earliest members of the fishing community were descendants of the Hessequa and of freed slaves.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/arnistonalive.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Geskiedenis_KBAAI-RIETHUISE.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1458 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/arnistonalive.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Geskiedenis_KBAAI-RIETHUISE.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1040\" height=\"454\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\nIn 1905, the Pratt brothers planned to develop a holiday village on their land and to move the fishing community.\u00a0 The fishing community resisted.\u00a0 With the assistance of a resident from Bredasdorp, one Roos, they obtained the services of a lawyer in Caledon and petitioned the Cape Governor General.\u00a0 A judge in the Cape High Court ordered the parties to consider a settlement.\u00a0 This resulted in an agreement, with the fishing community buying the land of the present-day historic fishing village for a nominal price of one shilling.\u00a0 The five families who had first settled in the area each received a stand in the new town development as it was accepted that, in 1905, Jan Hopie, Piet Maritz, George Murtz, Hendrik Newman and Michiel Dyers had all been living in the area for more than fifty years.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/arnistonalive.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Geskiedenis_Vissermanne.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1460 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/arnistonalive.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Geskiedenis_Vissermanne.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"522\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\nBefore 1905, the fishermen went to sea from the present Roman Beach, which was known as Oubaai.\u00a0 They lived mostly in houses spread out in what is now known as the Ou Dorp.\u00a0 After the 1905 settlement, they gradually moved to the present fishing village.\u00a0 They started using the beach where the harbour is now situated, going out to sea in small sailing vessels.\u00a0 They always fished within sight of the shoreline.\u00a0 Once the first sail was hoisted after a day\u2019s fishing, there was usually a race back to the harbour area.\u00a0 The longer you fished, the greater the catch, but the first boat in had the best chance of selling its entire catch.\u00a0 The first motorised vessels appeared in the late 1920s.\u00a0 The harbour slipway was built in 1936.\r\n\r\nIn 1922, Arniston\/Waenhuiskrans was declared a town.\u00a0 Substantial increases in the size of the town occurred in 1936, 1967, 1974 and 1989.\u00a0 The two names used for the town, Arniston and Waenhuiskrans, became the official town names in 1981.\u00a0 This is the only town in South Africa with two names.\u00a0 Arniston\/Waenhuiskrans became part of the Cape Agulhas Municipality in 1996.\r\n\r\nThe Fisherman\u2019s Union was formed in 1932 to manage the Kassiesbaai fishing village.\u00a0 Walter Jeppe was instrumental in establishing the Union.\u00a0 He was also the first secretary and in charge of the building of the Fisherman\u2019s Union Hall.\r\n\r\nBy 1970, the historic fishing village was suffering from severe decay.\u00a0 The local government planned to move the village.\u00a0 The ostensible reason was decay and a long backlog in the payment of property taxes.\u00a0 Conservationists raised money to pay the outstanding taxes and to restore the village.\u00a0 It was declared a national heritage site in 1984.\u00a0 The Waenhuiskrans Cultural Landscape was classified as a Grade 1 National Heritage Landscape in 2003.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/arnistonalive.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Geskiedenis_SEAGULLSOYSTERCATCHERS06081.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1459 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/arnistonalive.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Geskiedenis_SEAGULLSOYSTERCATCHERS06081.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"536\" height=\"373\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\nWaenhuiskrans\/Arniston is surrounded by stretches of land which are gradually being consolidated to become part of a conservation area that will stretch from Cape Agulhas to Cape Infanta.\u00a0 This will include the almost 36\u00a0000 hectares of De Hoop, where Armscor established a missile test range in 1984.\u00a0 A marine reserve stretching twelve kilometres into the sea was declared in 1986.\r\n\r\nThe southernmost point in Africa has been known as Cape Agulhas since 1502.\u00a0 This area is the part of the Southern African coastline with the highest number of shipwrecks.\u00a0 Many places in the area are named after shipwrecks, such as Zoetendalsvlei (named after the wreck of the Zoetendal in 1673), Arniston (named after the Arniston, stranded in 1815), Ryspunt (named after the Wegtenshire, which sank in 1885 carrying a freight of rice), Skipskop (named after the Maid of Thames), Martha Point, Schoonberg Bay, St Mungo Bay, Olter Bay, Celt Bay and the Miles Barton reef.\r\n\r\nTo read a history of the ship wreck of the Arniston, CLICK HERE\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Sources:<\/strong> Documents from the South African Archives in Cape Town, as well as documents from the archives of the Cape Agulhas Municipality, the Overberg District Municipality and the Magistrates Court in Bredasdorp; documents and photographs in the possession of, as well as further information by, Ferdi Spamer; D. Sleigh - Die Buiteposte (Protea Boekhuis, 2004); J. Parkington - Shorelines, Strandlopers and Shell Middens (Publication @ Krakadouw Trust, 2006).<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3575","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arnistonalive.org.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arnistonalive.org.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arnistonalive.org.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arnistonalive.org.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arnistonalive.org.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3575"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/arnistonalive.org.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4176,"href":"https:\/\/arnistonalive.org.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3575\/revisions\/4176"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arnistonalive.org.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arnistonalive.org.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}