Showing posts with label South Africa (Cape Town). Show all posts
Showing posts with label South Africa (Cape Town). Show all posts

Thursday, March 12, 2026

Tuesday, March 12, 1901. No aid.

Almost all black African residents of Cape Town, South Africa, were forcibly removed by orders of John Gregory, the Chief Medical Officer of Britain's Cape Colony, for the ostensible purpose of controlling an outbreak of the bubonic plague and quarantined at the Matiland Plague Hospital at Uitvlugt.

The Russian Writers' Union for Mutual Aid was ordered permanently disbanded by Dmitry Sipyagin, the Minister of Internal Affairs, after officers of the group had participated in a political demonstration a week earlier.

Have you heard Trump's comments about the press?

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Monday, March 11, 1901. Tourism and Hawaii.