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About 10,000 Dutch families, for various reasons, left for the north in search of new land, thereby opening up the interior of the country. Further political development occurred in 1840 when the Cape Town Municipality was formed. At its inception, the population stood at 20,016, of which 10,560 were white.
Cape Argus. Website. www .capetimes .co .za. The Cape Times is an English-language morning newspaper owned by Independent News & Media SA and published in Cape Town, South Africa . As of 2012 the newspaper had a daily readership of 261000 [2] and a circulation of 34523. [3] By the fourth quarter of 2014, circulation had declined to 31930.
1937 – Hoërskool Bellville was founded. 1937 - Just Nuisance born in Rondebosch (the world's first and only dog enlisted as Able Seaman in the South African Navy) 1938 – Groote Schuur Hospital founded. 1939 – Catholic Vicariate of Cape Town active.
January. 7 – A bomb damages the office of the West Rand Administration Board in Soweto.; 8 – Umkhonto we Sizwe guerrillas attack Koeberg nuclear power plant in Cape Town. 11 – The United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid launches the International Year of Mobilisation for Sanctions against South Africa.
Cape Town[ a] is the legislative capital of South Africa. It is the country's oldest city and the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. [ 11] It is the country's second-largest city, after Johannesburg, and the largest in the Western Cape. [ 12] The city is part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality .
Events. February. 6 – King George VI dies and is succeeded Queen of South Africa by his daughter, Elizabeth II. March. 23 – Ex-regent Mshiyeni, uncle of Zulu King Cyprian Bhekuzulu kaSolomon, warns the Zulu people not to participate in the Defiance Campaign. In the press the King repeatedly denies having any views on the matter.
t. e. The year 1870 in the history of the Cape Colony marks the dawn of a new era in South Africa, and it can be said that the development of modern South Africa began on that date. Despite political complications that arose from time to time, progress in Cape Colony continued at a steady pace until the outbreak of the Anglo-Boer Wars in 1899.
The Cape Argus is a daily newspaper co-founded in 1857 by Saul Solomon and published by Sekunjalo in Cape Town, South Africa. It is commonly referred to as The Argus . Although not the first English-language newspaper in South Africa, the Cape Argus was the first locally to use the telegraph for news gathering.