Cape of Good Hope

So nearly one month in Africa...

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August 14th 2006
And it still doesn't feel quite as real as I know that it is. But I am used to the area around school and where I live, and I am trying to get into the whole school thing. Though it is terribly difficult when you live with 19 other people in a house. I am taking three classes at the U. of Cape Town. A history course called Memory, Identity, and History, about the holocaust, apartheid, an ... 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