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Johannesburg

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October 4th 2018
After a very long flight we and our luggage arrived in Johannesburg.On Wednesday we took a tour of Johannesburg and Soweto(South West Townships) Johannesburg is a large diverse city. Our guide Tehbang was great and could speak nine languages. (more then half were languages we had never heard of)We found Soweto the most interesting part of the tour. We saw Nelson Mandela's and Desmond Tutu's house ... read more

Africa » South Africa

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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