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Aunt Queenie's house on Main Road, Greenpoint, Cape Town81

The journey of my life

The reason for my being born in Cape Town rather than in the then Transkei where my father was a teacher, was Hitler. He overshadowed my life from the start and in some ways still does.

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My father Murray McGregor teaching a High School class at Blythswood Institution before the advent of Bantu Education64

A Man in Jackboots Walking All Over the Garden

"The Bantu must guided to serve his own community in all respects. There is no place for him in the European community above the level of certain forms of labour. Within his own community, however, all doors...

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Education – a crisis of delivery not curriculum

The OBE curriculum is blamed in some quarters for the poor performance of students in the school leaving examinations at the end of 2008. But this is to ignore the impact of 200 years of history and 40 years of the deliberate imposition of education for servitucde on Black people in South Africa.

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The Rev Dr James Stewart72

Blythswood: a unique South African mission station

Blythswood Missionary Institution in the former Transkei, South Africa, was unique in that the people it served asked for it and contributed to the cost of setting it up.

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