Atlantic Ocean

They say the Indian Ocean meets the Atlantic at Cape of Good Hope, even though this is not the true southernmost cape of Africa. The real one is just across the next bay to the east.

Touring SA

May 2nd 2014
It is May 2, four months since I took my holiday at the end of the school year 2013. Right now, it’s 5 days before national elections and 5 days after Freedom Day which celebrates the country’s first democratic elections twenty years ago when Nelson Mandela was elected president. Back in December, I was in Cape Town during the week following Nelson Mandela’s death. We went to the Robben Isla ... read more

Africa » South Africa » Mpumalanga » Middelburg

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

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