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Cape Town: A Home At the End of the World

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August 24th 2007
Cities I've Seen. Cities I've Felt Despite the many blessings I’ve enjoyed all along - wonderful family, surfeit of friends, book shops in every city my dad was transferred to, and an education system that played perfectly to my, now rusty, ability to learn anything by rote - by 26 I’d still managed to make a pretty good mess of my life. Even if it wasn’t apparent to most people around me ... read more

Africa » South Africa » Western Cape » Cape Town

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After the British seized the Cape of Good Hope area in 1806, many of the Dutch settlers (the Boers) trekked north to found their own republics. The discovery of diamonds (1867) and gold (1886) spurred wealth and immigration and intensified the subjug... ... read more