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… was repayment for the treatment the Boers received at the Cape. The Union Buildings were designed by the British … to remove the franchise from persons of colour at the Cape. Britain, as indicated earlier, had at this point given … the larger and wealthier ones would dominate them. The Cape colony, in particular, feared that in a union, the other …

… in the area. 26 March, Warden's troops, known as the Cape Riflemen, arrive in Bloemfontein. 1848 The first NG … A passenger transport services was introduced between Cape Town and Bloemfontein via Kimberly. 1881 The Church of … in Bloemfontein. The ICU was originally established as a Cape Town labour union. H.S Msimang is elected president of …

… to court arrest 1911 March 15, Natal, Transvaal and Cape Indians submit a petition against Smuts’ new Immigration … the admission from India of wives and children, the Cape entry issue for Indians, exoneration for bona fide … area”. 1919 January 26 – 30, At the initiative of the Cape British Indian Council a meeting of the Transvaal and …

… Unesco declared Robben Island in the Western Cape a World Heritage Site in 1999. Robben Island is located … This continued after Jan van Riebeeck arrived at the Cape in 1652, as he had to settle a station where ships that … prisoners and other "undesirables" banished to the Cape from other Dutch colonies. In fact the Dutch government …

… centre went on a hunger strike 'for more food'... read on Cape Schools Join the Revolt The school students in Cape Town reacted to the news they heard of events in Soweto. … townships following June 16. After the first shootings in Cape Town, a teacher at one of the schools recounted... read …

… launched in April 1981 with 400 delegates from the Western Cape attending. Some of the women who pioneered the … up. * Full image caption: "Police arrest UWO members, Cape Town, 1985. Leaders of the United Women's Organisation … in which police killed twenty-two people in the Eastern Cape township of Langa. Eyewitnesses maintained that the …

… 1940 Born in Cape Town. 1960s Graduates from the University of Cape Town with Mathematics and English. 1972 Earns a PhD in … II Retires from his Professorship at the University of Cape Town 2003 Publishes Elizabeth Costello, which makes the …

… at the Center for African Studies at the University of Cape Town in 1946, "Margins to Mainstream: Lost South African … mobilization, "If the people in the Transvaal and the Cape can do it, we can do it also. If they can be organized, … Exhibitions of Native Life in South Africa, 1947-1950,” (Cape Town: South African Museum, 1997), 1. …

… of the Orange Free State, Transvaal, Natal and the Cape to form the Union of South Africa, the British and the … to register and carry passes. In 1902, Coloureds in Cape Town formed the African Political Organisation to … 1903 to 1921. It includes socio-historical analysis of the Cape Town 'answer' to the Bolshevik Party (the Industrial …

… of the vote to 16.3 %, and became the largest party in Cape Town. Helen Zille, a DA Member of Parliament, was then elected mayor of Cape Town, and subsequently received the Mayor of the Year … in support, winning the outright majority in the Western Cape with 51.5 percent of the provincial vote. The party also …

… governments since shortly after the founding of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal and the Boer Republics. The National … first major campaign against Apartheid was launched in the Cape Peninsula, in 1948. The campaign challenged the … to extend racial segregation to trains in the Western Cape. It was fronted by the Communist Party of South Africa …

… so great that once the Kimberley area was annexed by Cape Colony in 1880, it took only a decade before diamond "baron" Cecil Rhodes was elected prime minister of Cape Colony. Wealth from the Slave Trade Mainly, Britain, … 1870's, free Indians were exploring opportunities in the Cape Colony, the Orange Free State and the South African …

… Anglican Church in South Africa , Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town, and chair of the Truth and Reconciliation … Humanitarian Award. 1986 – Ordained as the Archbishop of Cape Town. 1987-97 – President All Africa Conferences of … Churches. 1988 – Chancellor of the University of Western Cape. 1989 – Joint recipient Third World Prize. 1996 – …

… with the foundation of the colonial experience at the Cape in 1652. Six years after the Dutch East India Company established its colony at the Cape, the first formal school is begun in 1658. This school … Jan van Riebeeck for the slave children brought to the Cape in the Dutch ship, the Amersfoort, which had captured …

… born on 16 December, 1942 in Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape. His mother, Cecilia Potgieter, was a Coloured domestic … Elizabeth from Oudtshoorn, a small town in the Western Cape, after her Calvinist family learned about her pregnancy. … to attend the University College of the Western Cape where he got a B.A. Because of the apartheid …

… arrival of the Europeans When the Europeans arrived at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652, they brought advanced weapons and … was found in a cave on a farm called Linton in the Eastern Cape, but has since been moved to the South African Museum in Cape Town. It is thought that the painting shows a San figure …

… 23 former 'Coloured' reserves, in the Western and Northern Cape, and Free State and Eastern Cape provinces. Here the state is in the process of … Gauteng province, which is largely urban, and the Western Cape, where agricultural land prices are particularly high. …

… combined the self-governing British colonies of the Natal, Cape, Transvaal and the Orange Free State into the Union of … nearly all non-whites were not allowed to vote. In the Cape Province, an important number of Black and Coloured men …

… from the Indian subcontinent having been brought to the Cape. In the decades 1690 to 1725 over 80% of the slaves were … Far East and were by the 1880s totally integrated into the Cape White and Coloured communities. In the second half if … captured in the Ngome forest in August and exiled to the Cape. The Zulu were then instructed to return to their …

… region is launched. REC is yet to be elected July, Eastern Cape and Border committees are set up Late July, the Western Cape UDF region is launched The formation of the regional UDF … at the Rocklands Community Centre, in Mitchells Plain, Cape Town (view footage ), attended by about a 1000 delegates …

… the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) takes place in Cape Town and the party’s manifesto is adopted. The ISL joins … African Coloured People’s Organisation (SACPO), is born in Cape Town. 1926 Prime Minister General Barry Hertzog … organised jointly by the CPSA, ANC and ICU, is held in Cape Town and across the Rand in protest against the passing …

… from Langa to the police headquarters in Caledon Square, Cape Town. The protesters offered themselves up for arrest … history.  In particular, the African work force in the Cape went on strike for a period of two weeks and mass marches were staged in Durban. In Cape Town, an estimated 95% of the African population and a …

… Held at the University of Cape Town from 16-20 July 1979, The State of Art in South … The State of Art in South Africa. Conference Proceedings. Cape Town: University of Cape Town, 1979, page 159 ↵ [2] John Peffer. Art and the End …

… founded in 1987 by Mavis Taylor the head of University of Cape Town Drama Department and professional theatre director, … apartheid laws. It was initially housed in Observatory, Cape Town. In 1988 out of the need for more educators in … ‘The Art Syllabus and Community Arts in the Cape Peninsula during the 1980s’ by Nicolaas Vergunst 1988 …

… arrival of the Europeans When the Europeans arrived at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652, they brought advanced weapons and … Buchu and its various medicinal benefits to the European Cape settlers in the 17 th century. Historically the Khoisan … over by the Dutch colonists and "Boegoe” became a popular Cape medicine.  The leaves were steeped in brandy and the …

… Consequently, qualified teachers had to be recruited from Cape Town. However, even these teachers often lacked the … who wanted to attend secondary schools needed to travel to Cape Town in order to attend schools there. [ii] At the time, … training institutions, including Hewat Training College in Cape Town, as well as the Oudtshoorn Training College, which …

… restricted the ability for African men to own land in the Cape (Root & Wachira, 2009: 668). The Act also imposed a … crisis at the beginning of the twentieth century in the Cape, the government used the Public Health Act to move … Uitvlugt, a sewage farm several miles from the city in the Cape Flats (Swanson, 1977: 393). The Locations Act of 1903 in …

… and land dispossession in Southern Africa began in the Cape, over time as the white colonialist political hold over … Voters Registration Act was passed in 1887 in the Cape parliament as a result of pressure applied by the … were disenfranchised; a third of these were in the Eastern Cape. Xhosa speaking people nicknamed the act Tung’ umlomo …

… Learners First place: Fairouz West (Western Cape), ‘A history of sport’ Second place: Neo Panane (North … of my school’ Third place: Ideline Akimana (Western Cape), ‘ Xenophobia’ Special mentions Tregina Mokoena on “The …

… about equality with whites. John X Merriman , a prominent Cape liberal, noted that many (including himself), “regard … In Rouen a further problem was that a Battalion of the Cape Coloured Corps was stationed. There was anxiety about … labour contingent who had no freedom of movement. Even the Cape Coloured Corps, also from South Africa, were not only …