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External Links broken[edit]

External links do not work anymore. (Encyclopedia and Brittanica Ones) — Preceding unsigned comment added by AfricanBard (talk • contribs) 18:32, 20 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Title incorrect[edit]

This page should clearly be called History of Cape Colony Pre-1806. As I'm new to editing Wikipedia, I don't know how to change that. ChikeJ (talk) 09:10, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Need an article on General Sir James Craig, currently the name links to James Craig which is a disambig page for several different James Craigs - but the General is not one of them! --Stormie 04:52, Apr 7, 2004 (UTC)

Forget I spoke, it seems that James Henry Craig, governor of Canada, is indeed the same person as General Sir James Craig of Cape Colony. --Stormie 05:09, Apr 7, 2004 (UTC)

Merge with Cape Colony[edit]

We have 3 or 4 pages of History. THe root page is thin, the history pages are fat. Put them all on first page ? Wizzy 21:15, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Add a 4-paragraph summary to Cape Colony, leave the history articles as-is - they are quite interesting as an in-depth view of the period (southern Africa being the troublesome Middle East of the 1911EB's era) and thus worth keeping, but too detailed for the average reader. Stan 22:06, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Kaffir?[edit]

In translating this for the Afrikaans wikipedia, I came across the almost casual references to kaffir and kaffirtribes. In order to avoid upsetting things, would it be factually correct to rather refer to Zulutribes, etc? (Dewet 11:22, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC))

Around the Fish River, these would probably be Xhosa, not Zulu. Some neutral term would be better...black, perhaps, Bantu perhaps. Halfsnail 12:53, 7 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Slaves[edit]

The Boers never owned slaves!!! The Cape-Malays were payed personnel. Also the Kaffir were payed. In this history are several "informations", which are nothing but open rassism - anti-Germanism! All four chapters here are full of british lies, arguments of an ideological battle which takes place since 100 years without any brain. - Dr. Groeger 11.07.2006

Herbert[edit]

Sir Thomas Herbert described the natives of the Cape of Good Hope from his journey in 1626 (written in 1638) and made a drawing which can be found here He wrote examples of their language, culture, and dress among other things. Can anybody confirm which language the natives of the Cape of Good Hope would have spoken? Jakeybean (talk) 19:02, 10 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

VOC rather than dutch[edit]

This article should say that the VOC was the organization that settled the cape not the Dutch. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.103.156.231 (talk) 00:06, 5 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]