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Chapman’s Bay is therefore one of the oldest place names, in South Africa.
On 1 December 1834, slavery came to an end in the Cape Colony. The move to abolish slavery in the Colony came a year aft
Sol Plaatje University (SPU) opened in 2014, the first of two new universities to be established in post-apartheid South
21 March 1990, Namibia became the forty-seventh African colony to gain independence. Whilst preparing for this State of
The village of Greyton was established in 1852, although the first plots of land were only sold in 1854.