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Cape Town

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January 19th 2011
Cape Peninsula Tour Sir Francis Drake called it the ‘Fairest Cape in the circumference of the World’, which makes me suspect that Sir Francis was a very verbose person. Could he not call it just “The Fairest Cape”? Readers would have understood that it exists on our very own Earth and not on Moon or some other planet or satellite. The word ‘circumference’ is impressive but totally s ... read more

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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