Hey! That brings back memories! Thanks for this. Rhodes Memorial was a great place for running, and I went there after school sometimes. Rhodes was always a treat, because there was nothing like it back home on the Cape Flats. The highlight was showing my friends the zoo. There was no fee charged for viewing the lions. There were large cages there, too, suited for birds or monkeys. I forget what animals were held in those, but after a while there were just the lions left.
So glad it is closed and will never be opened. I was taken to this zoo many many years ago. So sad that we knew no different then. Hope to see the world change and ban zoos and circuses not to mention animal petting places
Love this place. I went once while a guy on drugs was chilling in the cages. Definitely added to the experience, especially when he started shouting 😂😂
I was in a Cadbury's Snacker TV commercial in the 90's that was filmed there in the empty Zoo, about 1996 or '97. I was one of several teens throwing food at a Gorilla in the main enclosure, the gorilla was next to a sign that read "Please do not feed the animals" and it was agitated. A guy and a girl rollerblade past eating a cadbury's snacker and stop and the gorilla spots them and gets excited and covers up the word "Don't" on the sign with its hand to read "Please feed the animals". Anyone remember that commercial? Great Vlog Man. It took me right back.
A couple of Himalayan Tahr escaped from their cage back in the 1930's. I saw one above Rhode's on a hike once, took me a while to figure him out. If I knew then what I know now, I would have told him to go and hide.
As one goes to Rhodes Memorial drive and the parking was to the right, now used by UCT. They used to have Lions; Leopards & a massive Bird cage, ...! I heard a lot of the animals went to Tygerberg Zoo until that closed & then all those animals were moved again out to a Zoo in Kraaifontein ->
Hi Adam have you ever been to the aquarium in Sea Point, it is also closed now not sure what is going on it that building, lower road sea side. Let us know. Susan Curtis Stovell
Yeh, its a grey area...zoo, animal shelter, wildlife snatuary...their all pretty much the same. There are borderline no organisations in the first world that steal animals from the wild for zoo's...and most of the animals were born in captivity or cannot be released in the wild.
Hello sir do you think it would be possible to take me and my dad to see this place please sir... We would like to see this place sometime this month if you are still in Cape Town. I would really appreciate it
i visited zoo often back-inna-day and it was sad,my most profound memory was of pitiful ,sad animals in tiny cells.donkeys were pastured on adjacent land to feed lions,..cool space,..kak colonialist karma;excuse my ne4ativity,just keepn it real,it s7ould be used for bio-education before it becomes an exclusive restuarant/fitness wareouse!..
