Cocktails in a Trinidad restaurant, Long Street, Cape Town

Apartheid museum, first visit to a township

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September 30th 2006
Today was my first real insight into another side of South Africa; a side that I am always aware in the back of my mind exists but when life is so wonderful in the centre it's almost too easy to forget. We visited a museum dedicated to apartheid and then to five different townships, 4 black townships, one coloured township. The test to decipher who was coloured and who was black...a string of ri ... 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