Key Information
Reference code
GDA17/1
Title
Items relating to Costas Phitides (Hadjiharalambous), Johannesburg, [1895]-1991
Date(s)
- [1895] - 1991 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
3 items
Scope and content
Items relating to one of the first documented Greek Cypriot migrants to South Africa, Costas Phitides (born in Phiti village, Cyprus, 1867, migrated to South Africa in 1895), founder of the Cypriot Brotherhood in Johannesburg, including a photograph of Phitides with his first mobile coffee shop in the central square, Johannesburg, c 1895, and a photocopy newspaper article concerning his life-story, in Greek.
See also GDA27/AV24 and GDA27/AV74