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Saartje Baartman, also known as The Hottentot Venus

Saartje ('Sarah') Baartman (1789-1815), also known as The Hottentot Venus - an African servant girl from South Africa's Eastern Cape of the Khoisan tribe brought to London in 1810 & exhibited at freak shows and private events there and in Paris, where she died 1815, with sections of her body preserved and displayed at Paris's Museum of Man (until 1974). Her remains were repartriated to South Africa and re-interred in 2002. Date: 1811

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Union-Castle Holiday Tours

Advertising travel poster for Union-Castle Holiday Tours depicting a colourful Mediterranean scene with white balcony and blue sea, offering reduced return fares to Madeira, the Canary Islands, South Africa, the Mediterranean, Belgium, Holland and Germany. The Union-Castle shipping line operated passenger and mail ships between Europe and Africa from 1900 to 1977

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Gandhi, Sonja Schlesin and Hermann Kallenbach

Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948), Indian independence leader, during his time in South Africa when he was leader of the South African Indians and campaigned for them to be given equal rights to other British citizens. Pictured with him are his secretary, Sonja Schlesin and his assistant, Hermann Kallenbach. Date: 1913

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