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Item A study in the history of Protea Village and the impact of the Group Areas Act(University of the Western Cape, 1995) Bantom, RonaldIn this story I will look at the Group Areas Act and how it effected the life of people with particular reference to the Protea Village Community in Cape Town. Protea Village was a coloured spot situated on the slopes of Table Mountain beneath Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens with Rhodes Drive as the boundry. Protea Village started in 1885 when Cecil John Rhodes built a road from Groote Schuur to Hout Bay. It was important for him to have his coloured labourers close to the workplace, thus he rented the Stegman Cottages in Kirstenbosh as home for their families.Item The journey to Wankie: a biography of James April(University of the Western Cape, 1990) Van Driel, Nicole; Hendricks, JohnJames April, [hereafter referred to as April] was a member of the ANC's military wing Umkhonto we Sizwe [otherwise referred to as MK. What might have seemed unusual to the court that day, and to many onlookers, was the fact that he was a "Cape Coloured" man espousing his allegiance to the ANC and praising it as" ... the spirit of the African people". April and Basil February Chis close friend and comrade] were among the first non-African people to join MK thereby recognising the common destiny of all black people. In part,to tell April's [and Basil February's] story is to explore from an individual perspective the capacity and ability of people to overcome their socialisation, and to rise above conformity and social restrictions. Most of all, April's story is of an activist whose political involvement led him to realise the inevitability and necessity of armed struggle. Furthermore, it is the story of the commitment of his life to this very armed struggle.