Olea capensis wood materials. It is also the one of the world's hardest woods according to the Janka hardness test. The timber has a good abrasion resistance and is very strong. It is an excellent turnery wood, and is used for a wide range of decorative items. Olea capensis Olea capensis, also known by the common name black ironwood, is an African tree species belonging to the Olive family (Oleaceae). It is widespread in Sub-Saharan Africa from the east in Somalia, Ethiopia and Sudan, south to the tip of South Africa, and west to Cameroon, Sierra Leone and the Islands of the
Walter Janka judgement against him. At the same time a legal and journalistic displute flared between Janka and Wolfgang Harich about the details of those 1957 show trials. Janka's contribution to dramaturgy received recognition in the form of the Heinrich Greif Prize in 1990. On 16 December 1989 Janka was a member of the presidium at the of the SED (then in the process of transforming itself into the PDS / Party of Democratic Socialism / " Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus") held in Berlin at the Dynamo Sports Hall. In 1990 he was a member of the "Council of Elders" of the