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Cape Youth Congress (CAYCO)
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Jun 30, 2011

Cape Youth Congress (CAYCO)

Together with civic organizations, the youth played an in important role in the struggle against apartheid in the Wester...

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Western Cape Civic Association (WCCA)
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Jun 30, 2011

Western Cape Civic Association (WCCA)

Civic organisation also experienced problems in organising across the racial divide. Initially the emerging civic organi...

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Jun 30, 2011

Cape Areas Housing Action Committee (CAHAC)

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Jun 30, 2011

Cape Town Civic and Community Organisations, 1980s

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Jun 30, 2011

Growing social unrest: Community mobilisation, strikes and student protests in the Western Cape in the 1980s

The late 1970s witnessed increased labour unrest in the region of the Western Cape. For instance, the Fattis and Monis s...

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Black Consciousness and student revolt in the Cape
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Jun 30, 2011

Black Consciousness and student revolt in the Cape

After the government crackdown on political organizations in the early 1960s, new organizations emerged to fill the poli...

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Jun 30, 2011

Increasing repression and the turn to the armed struggle

A series of legislations were passed by the NP led government in the 1950s as it sought to deal with dissent and entrenc...

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Jun 30, 2011

Growth of African Nationalism and Defiance

The 1940s saw a growth of African nationalism that positioned itself to challenge the rising Afrikaner nationalism. The ...

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Jun 30, 2011

The growth of trade unionism in Cape Town and the formation of early political organisations

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Slave Resistance
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Jun 30, 2011

Slave Resistance

www.slavery.iziko.org.za/uprisingatcape

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Jun 30, 2011

Establishment of the Cape and its impact on Khoikhoi and Dutch

The formation of the VOC in Netherlands in 1602 increased Dutch dominance of the in the maritime trade. Acting on behalf...

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Jun 30, 2011

Early struggles, contact and conflict in the Cape Colony

The rounding of the Cape and the establishment of the trade route to the Far East had far reaching consequences not just...

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Jun 30, 2011

Slavery and Emancipation of Slaves

Read more on Slavery at the Cape After the establishment of a refreshment station at the Cape, Jan van Riebeeck was to ...

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Jun 30, 2011

English Settlement in South Africa

British presence in the Cape between the 1600s and 1795 was largely confined to the shores of the Cape and Table Bay as ...

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The Dutch Settlement
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Jun 30, 2011

The Dutch Settlement

The region of the Western Cape which includes the Table Bay area (where the modern city of Cape Town is located) was inh...

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