Car Museum

Wine Country

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October 9th 2012
Today we had a new tour guide as Owen had been previously booked, Havelyn was great though! Havelyn said he was classified colored even though his family was European... they could have applied to be reclassified as white, and chose not to. We asked him how African Americans (or blacks from other countries and other non-whites) were treated if they visited South Africa during Apartheid... he said ... read more

Africa » South Africa » Western Cape » Franschhoek

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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