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First posted July 1st 2005, last revised on January 29th 2009







For the history since 1910, see South Africa

Cape Colony, 1872-1910 .. Stellaland
Cape Colony 1835-1872 .. Great Kaffraria .. East Griqualand .. West Griqualand .. Great Trek
Cape Colony 1806-1835

Cape Colony 1652-1806

The Cape Area, 1488-1652


Historical Atlas, South Africa Page


Students' Papers : Kim, Hong, The Boer War as Portrayed in Punch 1898-1900 (2008)






WEB-BIBLIOGRAPHY . . . EXTERNAL FILES
Country Profiles Article : Cape Colony, from Wikipedia
Links, General Category : Cape Colony, from Wikipedia
Historical Maps
Timelines Alistair Boddy-Evans, Timeline of Slavery in the Cape Colony
Accounts of History Article : History of Cape Colony until 1806, 1806-1870, 1870-1899, 1899-1910, from Wikipedia
Encyclopedia Entries Articles Western Vicariate of the ape of Good Hope, Eastern Vicariate of the Cape of Good Hope, from Catholic Encyclopedia, 1907 edition
Articles Cape Colony, Cape Province, Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Graham's Town, Simon's Town, Kimberley, from EB 1911
Articles Kapland, Kapstadt, Griqualand, Kimberley, from Meyers Konversationslexikon 1885-1892, in German
Entry Graaf-Reinet, from Footnotes to History, by James L. Erwin
Cape Colony, from New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge
Ch. Pope, The yearly journal of trade, 1837-8 : comprising laws of customs and excise, treaties and conventions with foreign powers, tariffs of United Kingdom, Russia, Monte Video ... parliamentary speeches and papers, proclamations, orders in Council and of government boards, reports of law cases, translations of foreign documents (1838), posted on Internet Archive, on Cape of Good Hope pp.306-307
Politics
Military First Kaffir War 1818-1819, Kaffir War 1834-1835, Kaffir War 1846, Anglo-Boer War 1848, Kaffir War 1851-1853, Basuto War 1852, Basuto War 1857, Kaffir War 1877-1878, Boer War 1899-1902, from ACED
Anglo-Boer War Philatelic Society
Economy & Finances Entry South Africa, from Global History of Currencies, by Bryan Taylor
History of the First National Bank
Ethnography The Slave Route, from Arts 2000, on the history of slavery in the Cape Colony
German Immigrants to the Dutch Cape Colony 1652-1806, from German South Africa Resource Page
Religion Article Nerderduits Gereformeerde Kerk, Afrikaner Calvinism, from Wikipedia
History of Regions Article Griqualand West, Stellaland, from Wikipedia
History of Cities History of Cape Town from Wikipedia
A Brief History of Cape Town, from Cape Town 2004
Institutions
Biographies
Bibliography from The Online Books Page
RHS Bibliography, search for Cape Colony, Cape of Good Hope
Others Sieketroosters aan die Kaap 1652-1866 (Nurses at the Cape), summary of J.P. Claasen's doctoral thesis, summarized by by Johan Erasmus, in Afrikaans
Afrotropic Ecoregion, from WWF
Laura J. Mitchell, Belongings : Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa, diss. Columbia UP n.d.

WEB-BIBLIOGRAPHY . . . EXTERNALLY POSTED DOCUMENTS
Lists of Statesmen from Cape Colony by Ben Cahoon
Regnal Chronologies : Southern Africa, scroll down for Minor Boer States (the chieftaincies listed there, in fact, were no Boer states, but Griqua etc. polities); scroll sown for Xhosa, kwaZulu
Governors of Dutch Empire, Cape Colony, from Wikibooks
Population Figures
Document Collections Search Hansard for Cape Colony, Cape of Good Hope
A collection of VOC Cape of Good Hope land grants, slave grants, debentures, etc., from Paulus Swaen, a commercial site
From British Military Medals : Cape of Good Hope General Service Medal 1880-1897, Queen's South Africa Medal, 1899-1901, King's South Africa Medal, 1901-1902, Defence of Kimberley Star, 1899-1900
Search Scripophily for Cape Colony, Cape Town
Archives, Musea, Libraries
National Symbols Flag, from FOTW; Coat of Arms, from International Civic Arms; from Armoria Patriae
Coins, Banknotes Search Coin Archives for Cape of Good Hope
Stamps Rare Cape of Good Hope, Natal, Griqualand West, Stellaland Stamps, from Sandafayre Stamps Gallery; Cape of Good Hope, Griqualand, Stellaland Stamps, from Stamps Catalogue 1840-1920 by Evert Klaseboer
Others

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Online Libraries Internet Archive
On South Africa Robert Ross, A Concise History of South Africa, Cambridge Concise Histories, 1999, 219 pp.
Charles H. Feinstein, An Economic History of South Africa, Cambridge : UP 2005
Readers Digest Illustrated History of South Africa, Pleasantville NY : Readers Digest, 1988 [G]
Christopher Saunders and Iain R. Smith, Southern Africa 1795-1910, pp.597-623 in : Andrew Porter (ed.), The Oxford History of the British Empire, Vol.III : The Nineteenth Century, Oxford : UP 1999, KMLA Lib.Sign. 909.0971241 O98o v.3
D. Mills, The English in Africa (1900), posted on Internet Archive, chapter VII : The English and the Dutch in South Africa, pp.158-196
On the Cape Colony J. Noble, Descriptive Handbook of the Cape Colony : Its Condition and Resources (1875), posted on Internet Archive
R. Cadbury, Everyday Life in Cape Colony in Time of Peace (1902), posted on Internet Archive
R. Cannon, History of the Cape Mounted Riflemen (1842), posted on Internet Archive
A.R.E. Burton, Cape Colony for the Settler: An Account of Its Urban and Rural Industries, Their Probable Future (1902), posted on Internet Archive
E.H.D.E. Napier, Excursions in Southern Africa: Including a History of the Cape Colony (1849), posted on Internet Archive
A.F. Trotter, Old Cape Colony; a chronicle of her men and houses from 1652-1806 (1903), posted on Internet Archive
J. Cappon, Britain's Title in South Africa, Or, The Story of Cape Colony to the Days of the Great Trek (1901), posted on Internet Archive
A. Wilmot, J.C. Chase, History of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope: From Its Discovery to the Year 1819 (1869), posted on Internet Archive
Sources South African Treaties, Conventions, Agreements and State Papers (1898(, posted on Internet Archive
Treaties Entered Into by Governors of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope and Other British .. (1857), posted on Internet Archive
Records of the Cape Colony from February vol.1 1793-1796 (1897), vol.2 1796-1799 (1898), vol.3 1799-1802 (1898), vol.4 1801-1803 (1899), vol.5 1800-1806 (1899), vol.7, vol.8, vol.9 1812-1814 (1901), vol.10 1814-1815 (1902), vol.11 1815-1818 (1902), vol.12 1818-1820 (1902), vol.13 1820-1821 (1902), vol.14 1821-1822 (1902), vol.15, vol.16, vol.17, vol.18, vol.19 1824-1825 (1904), vol.20, vol.21 1825 (1904), vol.22 1825 (1904), vol.23 1825 (1904), vol.24, vol.25 1826 (1905), vol.26 1826 (1905), vol.27 1826 (1905), vol.28 1826 (1905), vol.30 1827 (1905), vol.31 1827 (1905), vol.32 1827 (1905), vol.33 1827 (1905), vol.34 1827 (1905), vol.35 1827-1831 (1905), vol.36 index, 1905, posted on Internet Archive
Statistical Register of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope 1887, 1902, 1905 posted on Internet Archive
H.C.V. Leibbrandt, Rambles through the archives of the colony of the Cape of Good Hope, 1688-1700 (1887), posted on Internet Archive
Treaties Entered Into by Governors of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope and Other .. (1857), posted on Internet Archive
Historical Dictionaries
Yearbook Entries Article : Cape of Good Hope Province, in : Americana Annual 1927 pp.153-154, 1928 p.137, 1930 p.152, 1931 p.142, 1932 pp.140-141, 1933 pp.135-136, 1934 p.133, 1935 p.127, 1936 p.119, 1937 p.108, 1943 p.135, 1944 p.129 [G]