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Cape Town

April 2nd 2016
The Cape Town region first came to the attention of the European world when the Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias landed there in 1486 but it was not until 1652 that any attempt was made to build a permanent settlement when the Dutch East India Company established a way-station for ships travelling to what is now Indonesia. Apparently the settlement grew only slowly as it was difficult to find ... read more
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South African Flag 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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7th July 2016

South Africa
We hope to go next year.

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