Blacks who fought with the British assumed that they would thereby win both Boer farms and the vote, already extended to blacks with property in the British Cape colony.

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Once an assembly has been chosen, it will ask the country's government to give them a separate homeland for the volk, descendants of the mainly Dutch pioneers who trekked north from the British-run Cape Colony in the early 19th century.

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Travelling down the shoreline we come upon a colony of Cape fur seals.

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The five were then taken to nearby Cape Verde, a former Portuguese colony about 1, 000km (620 miles) west of Guinea-Bissau, the TV station reported.

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It said they took the five into nearby Cape Verde, a former Portuguese colony, from where Na Tchuto was flown to the United States.

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We take off by helicopter from America's main research base in Antarctica toward Cape Royds, where exactly 100 years ago, in 1908, scientists started studying the local penguin colony.

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