Cape colony

Let’s take a walk down memory lane with these images of what Cape Town used to look like, with most of the images dating back as far as the early 1900s.

These images, once in black and white, show everyday life in South Africa more than one hundred years ago, picturing native villagers and Dutch settlers.

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While millions of enslaved Africans were shipped to the Americas during the Trans-Atlantic slave trade another slave port was thriving at the tip of Africa....

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South African history outline and key figures in South Africa’s history.

A History of Slavery In South Africa at the Cape Colony by the Dutch East India Company in the Black African History video documentary The Dutch Cape Colony

Welcome to ArtDeco - Printable digital collage sheets on Etsy. ArtDeco Printable Images are great for your art and crafts projects. This is a digital item, no physical item will be shipped. You can print these images as often as you like. This is a high resolution scan of an old map of Cape Colony, South Africa taken from an 1891 encyclopedia. I highlighted a few sections so you can see the details. It will print out as an 8 and 1/2 by 11 inch page, but the size can be adjusted. This is an…

In 1987, a group of restorers from the National Museum began the task of assessing and restoring an old ‘Kakebeenwa’ (Jawbone-wagon). This particular ox-wagon, known as the ‘Dirkie Uys Wagon’, was …