I could live here. If you could please just remove all the electric razor wire and guns.
March 16th 2018 I found myself in South Africa again for the third time in about 18-months. Once again it was PhD related but this time there would be no fieldwork up in Limpopo province, rather the time would be spent working from an office in Stellenbosch for a couple of weeks and a couple of days from an office in Pretoria.
It was a great few weeks. I got loads of work done; producing two papers throug
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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 
