Eastern Cape

Let's stop fighting the inventible APFT and understand what Physical Readiness Training is. First, PRT stands for Physical Readiness Training. FM 7-22 is a type of Physical Readiness Training. Comments like "I hate PRT" "I don't like doing PRT" only signifies that these people do not fully understand PRT and how it can differ from FM 7-22. FM 7-22 is the Army's Physical Readiness Training book but understand that this FM does not limit the unit's of doing other exercises. But it should be…

confused with the desert biome because they share many similarities such as both being hot and dry. “The chaparral biome is found in small sections of most continents, including the west coast of the United States, the west coast of South America, the Cape Town area of South Africa, the western tip of Australia and the coastal areas of the Mediterranean.” (http://blog.nwf.org/2014/12/8-wonky-and-wonderful-woodpecker-adaptations/ 9…

The social history of WhSAfE starts with the establishment of a trading and re-freshment station by the Dutch in the Eastern Cape at the end of the 18th century, con-trolled by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and frequented by British ships on their itinerary to the Far East (see Bowerman 2013: 512; Bowerman 2008b: 164). Due to the military capture of the Netherlands and its oversea possessions by Napoleon, the station, together with the surrounding area, was taken over by the British in 1795…

How Alexander Cassatt Developed A Much-Needed Railroad Railroads were essential to the Eastern Shore’s transformation into modern times. From the small railroads which first ventured into Delmarva’s Peninsula, to Alexander Cassatt’s revolutionary railroad which connected the shores, the history of railroads on the Eastern Shore always has something rich and interesting to find. The Eastern portion of the Eastern Shore had multiple early rail lines pioneering through it during the primitive…

has been fueled by the recent inflow of Brazilian immigrants. Cape Verde is an archipelago of nine islands off the coast of West Africa. From their settlement by Portuguese sailors in the late 15th century until 1975, the islands were a Portuguese colony. Large-scale migration to Massachusetts and Rhode Island started in the 1800s, when Azoreans and Cape Verdeans migrated to New Bedford to work in the whaling industry (Halter, 1993). Cape Verdeans remained in the region and worked in the…

of The Xhosa. According to Ryan Merkley, the Xhosa Wars, also known as the Cape Frontier Wars, or “Africa’s 100 years war”, were a series of nine wars between the Xhosa tribes and European settlers in what is now the Eastern Cape in South Africa (Jay, 2010). The Frontier or Xhosa Wars stretched over the time range from 1779 to 1879. According to South African History Online, the ever-changing frontiers of the Eastern Cape, was to be the set for a truly epochal smash between two worlds. These two…

South Africa is a country located on the southernmost tip of the African continent. It is bordered by northern African countries such as Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Lesotho and Mozambique. Furthermore, as stated by the World Atlas (2015), South Africa covers 1 214 470 square kilometers of land and 4 620 square kilometers of water, making it the 25th largest nation in the world with a total area of 1 219 090 square kilometers. Because of its large population consisting of many…

of fresh food and water on their voyage. It was decided that a refreshment station should be put up at the halfway point, Cape Town. In 1652, Jan van Riebeek, his officials and their…

Apartheid, a system of racial segregation, took over South Africa from 1948 until 1994. After the National Party gained power in 1948, the predominantly white government implemented laws to segregate the blacks from the whites. Under this system, majority of the black citizens of South Africa were forced to live separate from whites and the contact between the two races became restricted. Although the novel takes place in Post-Apartheid South Africa, the effects of the system are still present…

1. Introduction: “Two thousand years ago there was a major break in the economic and social world of southern Africa. Domestic animals and pottery were introduced for the first time into an environment of hunter-gatherers. There is considerable debate on the origin and spread of domestic animals on the subcontinent, but no argument that they have arrived from the north” Quoted by Cummings et al. 2014:484). According to Mountain (2003:40) the Khoekhoen have been regarded as the ethnographic…