Word: capes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...gifts of the purest gold were made and after a stay of two days, during which he played tennis and polo, the Prince returned to the sea and the Repulse, which, amid the cheering hullabaloo from the shore, turned her bows toward the south and churned her way to Cape Town, the point de départ for an extended tour of the Union of South Africa...
Governor General the Earl of Athlone, royal uncle of the Prince, represents His Majesty the King, aloof from local wrangles, immaculate symbol of British sway. He presides at the capital city of Pretoria* and is expected at Cape Town for the Prince's arrival...
General Jan Christian Smuts, of Dutch descent, acquired fame in the Boer War, and a share of immortality as joint-father of the League of Nations. He, an "Imperialist," in the sense of keeping South Africa in the British Empire, is already at Cape Town where he is leader of the Opposition in the Dominion Legislature...
...some for the Negroes. Each in his own territorial sphere is to be allowed independently to work out his own salvation; but the matter of employing whites or Negroes in either of the several tracts is to be self-determined. When segregation becomes a fait accompli, the native (the Cape Town native already has the franchise) is to be enfranchised...
...There is no single capital of South Africa, owing to the fact that, at the time of the Union, British and Dutch jealousy made it imperative to establish two capitals, one at Pretoria, one at Cape Town. In this respect, South Africa is unique...