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… hunter-gatherers, were the first people to live at the Cape. They got their food by hunting wild animals and … which show us how they lived. When the Dutch colonised the Cape in the 17th century there were San hunter-gatherers … Xhosa tribes came from Central Africa and settled in the Eastern Cape where the Transkei and Ciskei are today. African …

… the tercentenary of Jan van Riebeeck's arrival at the Cape in 1652, the ANC and SAIC called on black South Africans … Port Elizabeth and East London to smaller towns in the Eastern Cape Province, from Johannesburg to a number of … national leaders of the campaign in Johannesburg and the Eastern Cape. All were charged under the Suppression of …

… 15 branches from institutions in the Transvaal, Western Cape, Natal and the Eastern Cape. Despite being banned at institutions in the Eastern Cape, Natal and having had been weakened by …

… 1936 Hermanus Loots is born in the Kat River area of the Eastern Cape (19 July). [i] 1954 Matriculated from John Bisseker High School, in East London, Eastern Cape. 1961 Is recruited into the African National …

… state'. The men, women and children who set out from the eastern frontier towns of Grahamstown, Uitenhage and … colonial administration, insecure about conflict on the eastern frontier and 'squeezed out' by their own burgeoning … the trekkers were still not totally out of reach of the Cape judiciary - in terms of the Cape of Good Hope Punishment …

… 2000, seven xenophobic killings were reported in the Cape Flats district of Cape Town. Seven foreigners from different African countries … January 2008, two Somali shop owners were murdered in the Eastern Cape towns of Jeffreys Bay and East London. In March …

… Colonial settlement Land wars The 'Frontier Wars' in the Eastern Cape Europeans who came to stay in South Africa first settled … until 1820 when some 5000 British settlers arrived in the Eastern Cape. The economic development of the village was …

… their formation, the organisation set up branches in the Eastern Cape, Western Cape, Transvaal, Orange Free State and Natal. … strikes, negotiated and laid down demands. In Cradock, Eastern Cape students from seven schools boycotted the …

… in the School of Public Health at the University of Cape Town, present at the 14th World Conference on AIDS in … Mandla Mandela, endorse the ANC at a rally at Idutywa, Eastern Cape. 19 April, Nelson Mandela, is driven around in a … Botswana, Morocco, Germany, Libya, the Western Cape, Eastern Cape and Northern Cape, Kenya and Uganda, …

… and regional organizers. The rise of Poqo in the Western Cape While the Poqo remained inactive for most of 1960 and … informers, policemen and chiefs in the rural areas of the Eastern Cape known to be instruments of the Apartheid … with the authorities. Poqo in the Transkei The Eastern Cape was already considered one of the bastions of …

… on the rocks near Victoria Road in Oudekraal in the Cape on 29 July 1977. It was being towed to a wreckers yard … regular travellers on the Cape route. On 10 June 1907 the Eastern Province Herald reported that an unusual mail … (1608) The Santo Esperitu may have been shipwrecked on the eastern coast of South Africa. Porcelain shards have been …

… 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 … Tutu in response to decision by the ned geref kerk in the eastern cape to call on its members to testify before the …

… over fees and academic exclusions of students. In 2011, Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) protesting … percent increase in residence fees.    2012 January 2012, Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) students … at Walter Sisulu University of Technology in Butterworth, Eastern Cape Province, protested over the closure of the …

… newspaper to be the best newspaper in the world for the Eastern Cape. The paper continued to grow and make profits. In 1992, … was declared as the most widely read newspaper in the Eastern Cape. In September 1997, the paper kept up with …

… mine workers had families in provinces such as Eastern Cape. This in turn had an impact on access to food, as well … for their children. Rural communities, especially in the Eastern Cape, have lost people who put aside portions of … are going to kill each other today: the Marikana story . Cape Town: Tafelberg publisher.|Jones, M. (2013). South …

… The school students in Cape Town reacted to the news they heard of events in Soweto. … elsewhere in the country. They responded to events in the Eastern Cape, where a new focus of revolt had been … part of the sabotage campaigns of the time. Events in the Eastern Cape indicate that the Revolt there was protracted …

… holiday. After South African War the unification of the Cape Colony,  Natal  and the two Afrikaner Republics of the … Port Elizabeth and Durban. For instance in the Eastern Cape, an electrical substation was blown up in New … were attacked with a majority of these being in the Eastern Cape. This may be because Port Elizabeth was the …

… The first youth congress was formed in the Western Cape in 1983, known as the Western Cape Youth Congress … this region, which was not a stronghold of the ANC. In the Eastern Cape, opposition to the new Black Local Authorities … in the mining and cotton-farming communities on the eastern border of Sekhukhuneland. STEYCO played a key role, …

… Namaqua were settled in modern day Namibia and the north-eastern Cape; others, including the Korana, along the Orange River; … and the Gonaqua, interspersed among the Xhosa in the Eastern Cape. But the largest concentration of Khoikhoi, … as trophy heads and museums, the destruction of the Cape San, and appraisals of nineteenth-century photographic …

… the detainees from the Gugulethu police station. Western Cape June 16th youth uprising The youth march from Naledi … others on their route to Orlando East, the north eastern end of the vast complex. (Bailey's African History … number of student leaders at the University of the Western Cape and other community leaders are arrested and detained at …

… or poor urban areas in the country’s biggest metro such as Cape Town, Johannesburg and Ekurhuleni. Although there is no … services in Gugulethu, an impoverished township near Cape Town, in August 2012. Source: AFP/Rodger Bosch Whereas … protest every second day this year with Gauteng and the Eastern Cape were the most protest-ridden provinces. …

… Biko’s administrative assistant. Ramphele notes: ‘The Eastern Cape office was set up in response to Steve Biko’s banning … and Natal followed in 1974 and 1975 respectively, but the Eastern Cape emerged as the dominant region in terms of …

… a State of Emergency in 36 magisterial districts in the Eastern Cape and PWV (now Gauteng ) areas. This was the first State … August 1985 Allan Boesak organised a march in the Western Cape from Athlone Stadium to Pollsmoor Prison. The march was …

… in South Africa is found in the South-western and southern Cape, the Drakensberg, Eastern Cape, Lesotho and Swaziland. These are mountainous regions …

… 1775 Apprenticeship laws are promulgated at the Cape. 1800 A massive drought begins in Southern Africa … Potgieter founds the town of Andries-Orichstad in the eastern Transvaal. Hendrik Potgieter concludes a peace treaty … of Soutpansberg, which later became Schoemansdal, in the eastern Transvaal. 1852 17 January: The Sand River Convention …

… as the Europeans had begun to migrate northwards from the Cape settlement, with the two movements finally meeting in … area in the 1770s by a group of Xhosa fleeing Rarabe. The eastern frontier of the Cape Colony, a point of convergence … and integration between the western Xhosa and eastern Khoi, giving rise to the Khoi place names in Xhosa …

… /Xam speakers lived in remote parts of the Northern Cape. Today, the language is gone. But it survives in 12 000 … now housed and displayed in the South African Museum in Cape Town. In 1917, this panel was removed from the farm of Linton in the Maclear district in the Eastern Cape. Eighty-three years in museum care, protected …

… Slavery was introduced to the Cape Colony by the VOC in its desire to boost the agriculture … districts, played a significant role in the functioning of Cape Town as a centre of exchange and was used for pastoral and domestic labour in the remoter northern and eastern districts...The vast majority of Company slaves …

… move inland From the late 1600s and into the 1700s, the Cape settlers moved further north and east from Cape Town. This movement was led by the Trek Boers, who were … is now the Western Cape and beyond, into what are now the Eastern Cape and the Free State. As the map below shows, the …

… Jan van Riebeeck was sent to the Cape to establish a station at which ships of the United … this awareness. Town Planning and Management The site of Cape Town was claimed by right of conquest by the Company, … a new language originated, influenced by indigenous and Eastern languages, but rooted in the 17th century “common” …