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Cape Colony

noun

  1. the name from 1652 until 1910 of the former Cape Province of South Africa


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Toward the close of the year the situation grew so alarming that martial law was proclaimed by the Governor of Cape Colony.

Emigrants from Cape Colony occupied the Kaffir lands, which had become depopulated.

In the history of the Cape colony many a boer had lost his flocks in this326 very way.

This is still so in the north-western plains of the Cape Colony, as already remarked.

They left Cape Colony years ago, to escape our laws, which they considered unjust.

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