Cape Colony

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• Here, flocks of fine wool-bearing merino sheep (first imported from the Cape Colony in 1797) spread out and by 1880 it supported over 60 million sheep.
• (Pondoland); and on the west by Cape Colony (Griqualand East), The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
• By the second half of the nineteenth century the lack of a dependable water supply, underscored by frequent drought, was recognized as severely constraining the Cape Colony's agricultural development.
• The show is called The Edge Of The Earth Isn't Far From Here and deals with an invasion of the Cape Colony (rather a retaking) by Batavian (Dutch) forces in 1792. Yasmine Mohseni: Beyond the White Cube: Time Traveling with Artist Frohawk Two Feathers
• Diamonds are discovered in the Cape Colony (now a province in South Africa), the beginning of a huge increase in the diamond supply.
• The Cape Colony extended systematic protection to elephants, giraffes, hippopotami, buffalo, zebras, quaggas and antelopes in 1886.
• The Cape Colony extended systematic protection to elephants, giraffes, hippopotami, buffalo, zebras, quaggas and antelopes in 1886.
• The Voortrekkers (front trekkers) were a vanguard of Boers who trekked out of the Cape Colony with ox-wagons in the 1830s to set up an ind The first were Nguni-speakers, known as the Ndebele, who named the area after one of their chiefs, called "Tshwane" which means "Little Ape". ANC Daily News Briefing
• The Cape Colony (and the Cape Province afterwards) had the annulets in the same field as a rampant lion.
• After The Cape colony was ceded to the British in 1814, the Boers - who had now lived in Africa for more than a century and a half, grew disenchanted with British rule and eventually - about 20 years later, that is - "trekked" away from The Cape, in search of land to settle. Harry's Place