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    30 000 Capetonians from a diverse cross-section of the city marched in support of peace and the end of apartheid. The event, led by Mayor Gordon Oliver...
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    Cape Town is the legislative capital of South Africa. It is the country's oldest city and the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. It is the country's...
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    minister. Daniël François Malan was born on 22 May 1874 in Riebeek-West in the Cape Colony. His father, who bore the same name, was a wealthy farmer and clergyman...
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    Six (Afrikaans: Distrik Ses) is a former inner-city residential area in Cape Town, South Africa. In 1966, the apartheid government (the National Party)...
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  • The following is a timeline of the history of Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. 1510 – A Portuguese force led by Francisco de Almeida...
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    forced out as well eight months later. Vorster was born in 1915 in Jamestown, Cape Province, Union of South Africa, the fifteenth child of a successful sheep...
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    as a Public Language (PDF), Cape Town: PRAESA, archived from the original (PDF) on 6 September 2015, retrieved 17 March 2013 Alistair Boddy-Evans. "The...
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    term became a pejorative slur for Bantus and other black groups, including Cape Coloureds during the Apartheid era of South African history to the point...
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    the Archbishop: the Life and Times of Geoffrey Clayton, Archbishop of Cape Town, 1973 Knocking on the Door, 1975 Towards the Mountain, 1980 Ah, but Your...
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    Africa's provinces. An early example is the Glen Grey Act, passed in 1894 in Cape Colony, and which had the effect of diminishing the land rights of Africans...
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    5040/9781501330483.ch-016. ISBN 9781501330483. S2CID 226406419. Boddy-Evans, Alistair (1 March 2019). "The Afrikaans Medium Decree". ThoughtCo. Archived from the original...
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    the neighborhoods of Browns Farm, Gugulethu, Nyanga and Crossroads in Cape Town was renamed Govan Mbeki Road. The Health Building at Glasgow Caledonian...
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    PressReader. Hamann, Hilton (2001). "Introduction". Days of the Generals. Cape Town: Zebra Press (Struck Publishers). ISBN 1-86872-340-2. "Apartheid Brass...
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    South Africa, whose policies were seen to have become a direct threat to peace and security in Africa and the world. Its findings also pointed out that...
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    an estimated 150,000 black and coloured people lived in townships in Cape Town. Living conditions in the shack township settlements were poor, but they...
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    - Pretoria. Retrieved 6 April 2022. Barnes, Clayton (22 March 2013). "Six streets in Cape Town renamed". www.iol.co.za. Retrieved 6 April 2022. "2017 -...
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    by Cape Town Opera and the University of Cape Town, premiering at the Baxter Theatre on 21 November 2010. A District Municipality in the Eastern Cape was...
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    Second Boer War. Verwoerd went to a Lutheran primary school in Wynberg, Cape Town. By the end of 1912, the Verwoerd family moved to Bulawayo, Rhodesia,...
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    South Africa. Archived from the original on 7 April 2016. Retrieved 31 March 2021. Davie, Lucille. "Hastings: forgotten hero of 1976". Archived from...
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    racially prejudiced household. In 1923 Helen attended the University of Cape Town to study Zulu and Setswana, graduating from King's College London in 1927...
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    bombing Vaal uprising Trojan Horse Incident Khotso House bombing Cape Town peace march CODESA Assassination of Chris Hani Saint James Church massacre 1994...
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    degree. He joined the South African Police's uniform branch in the Eastern Cape. De Kock underwent off-duty training at Pretoria's Baviaanspoort Prison with...
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    Oliver Tambo (category Articles with unsourced statements from March 2019)
    village of Nkantolo in Bizana; eastern Pondoland in what is now the Eastern Cape. The village Tambo was born in was made up mostly of farmers. His father...
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    of Assembly met in the Assembly chamber at the Houses of Parliament in Cape Town. The House of Representatives met in the former Senate chamber. The House...
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    rejected the act until 1955 when Matanzima persuaded them. Born in Qamata, Cape Province, a brother of George, Ngangomhlaba Matanzima and a nephew of Nelson...
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    the town of Paarl in the Western Cape on 22 November 1962, when a crowd of over 200 people armed with axes, pangas and other home-made weapons marched from...
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    The area known today as Cape Town has no written history before it was first mentioned by Portuguese explorer Bartholomeu Dias in 1488. The German anthropologist...
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    of the leaders of the Women's March on 9 August 1956. Ruth Segomotsi Mompati was born in the far north of the former Cape Province (today's North West...
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    married journalist Amina Frense at the Wynberg Home Affairs office, in Cape Town.: 183  He is cousin to Jacqueline Arenstein. Unitas (Unity) Medal Service...
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    The United Nations took note and called the apartheid policy a "threat to peace." In the middle of April 1953, Chief Albert Luthuli, the President-General...
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