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Dec 06, 2017

Inqaba ya basebenzi Issue 26, April 1988

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Nov 30, 2017

Grade 6 Archive

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Nov 30, 2017

Inqaba Ya Basebenzi Number 5, January 1982

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Nov 30, 2017

Hatfield Street 139, Gardens

Declared a Provinsial Heritage Site, like so many of the lovely old houses on Hatfield Street, in Cape Town!

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Nov 30, 2017

Photographer Ernest Cole: Of bondage and freedom – Discovery of trove of negatives a game changer by Ivor Powell (Daily Maverick), 30 November 2017

By the age of 25, when Ernest Cole fled South Africa for exile in New York, he had already cut the template for the way ...

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Nov 29, 2017

Hawston

Close to Hermanus, the town of Hawston with its long, white unspoilt beach lies cosily between the sea and the mountain....

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How Unique was Slavery at the Cape?
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Nov 28, 2017

How Unique was Slavery at the Cape?

The first slaves arrived at the Cape in 1658, despite Jan van Riebeeck's several prior attempts at requesting slaves for...

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Louis van Mauritius and the Slave Revolt of 1808
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Nov 28, 2017

Louis van Mauritius and the Slave Revolt of 1808

The unique nature of slavery in the Cape Colony hindered many attempts at wide-scale resistance on the part of Cape slav...

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Inqaba ya basebenzi
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Nov 28, 2017

Inqaba ya basebenzi

Inqaba ya basebenzi, published in London by the Marxist Workers' Tendency of the African National Congress documents the...

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Nov 27, 2017

Unlike The Gambia’s Jammeh, Mugabe may not disappear, 22 November 2017, AZAD ESSA

In the central lobby of the Banjul International Airport, a painting of Yahya Jammeh, the former president of The Gambia...

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Nov 24, 2017

Hazyview

A Village that is inundated with History and very quicky being modernized but will always keep it's charm! The na...

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Nov 24, 2017

Franskraal and the Strandveld Museum

Situated right outside the shark cage diving centre of South Africa (Gansbaai), Franskraal is a quaint seaside village w...

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Nov 23, 2017

A Celebration of Queerness: Zanele Muholi receives a French knighthood

The French Embassy was due to present the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et de Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and L...

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Dutch settlement, the Indian Ocean slave trade and slavery at the Cape - seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
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Nov 22, 2017

Dutch settlement, the Indian Ocean slave trade and slavery at the Cape - seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

Reasons: DEIC permanent settlement at the Cape 1652 The DEIC (Dutch East India Company) in the Netherlands was set up i...

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Nov 22, 2017

Haakdoring

Railway siding and settlement 17km from Naboomspruit. Afrikaans for 'hook-thorn' The mame refers to the thorn bush found...

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