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Cape Colony

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Cape Colony
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(Placename) the name from 1652 until 1910 of the former Cape Province of South Africa
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Noun1.Cape Colony - a former province of southern South Africa that was settled by the Dutch in 1652 and ceded to Great Britain in 1814; in 1994 it was split into three new provinces of South Africa
Republic of South Africa, South Africa - a republic at the southernmost part of Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1910; first European settlers were Dutch (known as Boers)


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of the Western Cape, South Africa), who describes the tradition from its origins within the "liberalism struggle" in the Dutch Reformed Church in the Cape Colony around 1850 through Marxist dialectic during the 1970s and 1980s and contestation around the status of Afrikaans during the 1990s.
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