Ou Raadsaal Ou Raadsaal The Ou Raadsaal (English: "Old Council Hall") is a historic building in Pretoria, South Africa, located on the south side of Church Square. The Ou Raadsaal housed the Volksraad, the parliament of the South African Republic, from 1891 to 1902. The Ou Raadsaal was commissioned in the late 19th century by the South African Republic as the new seat of government in Pretoria, and was designed by Dutch architect Sytze Wierda in a Renaissance Revival style. The contract for construction was granted to John Johnstone Kirkness, a builder from the Orkney Islands with a prolific building career in
Ou Manling Ou Manling Man-Ling Wittchen-Ou (born as Ou Manling 區曼玲) is a Taiwanese author, resident in Germany. Ou Manling was born in Taipei, Taiwan. Her father, from mainland China, fled to Taiwan during the warfare between the Chinese Nationalist Party Guomindang and the Communist Party in 1950. Ou holds a BA in Foreign Languages and Literatures from National Taiwan University and a master's degree in Theater Science and English Literature from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. She has been living in Germany for over 20 years. In addition to her native language of Mandarin Chinese, she speaks English and German fluently.