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Children's Overseas Reception Board (CORB) group bound for New Zealand, 1940. The Children's Overseas Reception Board ( CORB) was a British government sponsored organisation. [ 1] The CORB evacuated 2,664 British children from England, so that they would escape the imminent threat of German invasion and the risk of enemy bombing in World War II.
The Parktown prawn, African king cricket or tusked king cricket ( Libanasidus vittatus) is a species of king cricket endemic to Southern Africa. It is unrelated to prawns, Libanasidus being insects in the order Orthoptera – crickets, locusts and similar insects. The king crickets are not true crickets either: they belong to the family ...
Cape Town[ a] is the legislative capital of South Africa. It is the country's oldest city and the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. [ 11] It is the country's second-largest city, after Johannesburg, and the largest in the Western Cape. [ 12] The city is part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality .
The chacma baboon (Papio ursinus), also known as the Cape baboon, is, like all other baboons, from the Old World monkey family. It is one of the largest of all monkeys. Located primarily in southern Africa, the chacma baboon has a wide variety of social behaviours, including a dominance hierarchy, collective foraging, adoption of young by females, and friendship pai
Robben Island ( Afrikaans: Robbeneiland) is an island in Table Bay, 6.9 kilometres (4.3 mi) west of the coast of Bloubergstrand, north of Cape Town, South Africa. It takes its name from the Dutch word for seals ( robben ), hence the Dutch/Afrikaans name Robbeneiland, which translates to Seal (s) Island . Robben Island is roughly oval in shape ...
www.handspringpuppet.com. The Handspring Puppet Companyis a South African puppetryperformance and design company. It was established in 1981 by Adrian Kohler, Basil Jones, Jon Weinberg, and Jill Joubert,[2]and is based in Cape Town, South Africa. War Horse,a play seen by nearly eight million people, features horse puppets designed and created ...
At the South African Cartoonists Awards in 2008 he won the Best Humorist Cartoon award. [10] In 2009, the Media Institute of Southern Africa awarded Zapiro its MISA Press Freedom Award for his two decades of humour and satire in South Africa. [11] He was awarded the Freedom to Publish Prize by the International Publishers Association in 2012. [12]
The Rhodes Colossus. The Rhodes Colossus is an editorial cartoon illustrated by English cartoonist Edward Linley Sambourne and published by Punch magazine in 1892. It alludes to the Scramble for Africa during the New Imperialism period, in which the European powers, beginning in 1884, expanded their colonial expansion in Africa by dividing the ...