Word: capes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...United Nations maintains a special committee to catalogue and denounce the injustices of apartheid, which is under almost constant attack in the General Assembly as well as in the capitals of the free world. Former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan flew to Cape Town in 1960 to urge South Africans to bend
...Boers' glorious freedom ended in 1814, when the Dutch ceded the Cape Colony to Britain during the Napoleonic Wars. The British brought in property laws, courts, and worst of all, government. Shocked at the treatment of the natives, London ordered all slaves freed, proclaimed Coloreds, Hottentots, and even Bushmen equal...
...three of the four separate states that joined together in 1910. The administrative capital is Pretoria, a city of wide avenues and blue jacaranda blossoms in the onetime Boer Republic of the Transvaal. The Supreme Court is located in Bloemfontein, capital of the Orange Free State. Parliament meets in Cape Town, oldest city in the republic and home of most of its 1,747,000 "Coloreds" (mulattoes), who once enjoyed almost the same rights and privileges as the whites...
Since apartheid had not yet been invented, they intermingled freely with the primitive Hottentots and Bushmen who were the only native inhabitants of the Cape. "The Colored race started nine months after Jan van Riebeeck landed," says Colored Educator Dr. Richard van der Ross...
Plentiful Land. Cape Town soon became famous as "the tavern of the seas." Under a warm sun, crops flourished, cattle fattened and the population of the tiny station multiplied. Dutch settlers began flocking in, to be granted plots of rich farm land by the Dutch East India Company. Land was plentiful, and rather than survey it all, the company often granted a newcomer as much as he could ride around on horse back in a given number of hours...