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Re-enactment of the discoverer's arrival, Cape Town

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Dias has landed: Buffels Bay in the Cape Point Nature Reserve took a step back in time yesterday when "Bartolomeu Dias", played by actor Willem Pretorious, rediscovered the Cape in a colourful peagent attended by about 1 500 people. Crewmen from the Dias caravel, which is in Cape Town as part of the Cape Festival, planted a padarao (cross) at the Bay in a re-enactment of the discoverer's arrival at the Cape in 1488.

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Title
Re-enactment of the discoverer's arrival, Cape Town
Creator
Muller, Leon
Subject
Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Festivals, Colonization
Description
Dias has landed: Buffels Bay in the Cape Point Nature Reserve took a step back in time yesterday when "Bartolomeu Dias", played by actor Willem Pretorious, rediscovered the Cape in a colourful peagent attended by about 1 500 people. Crewmen from the Dias caravel, which is in Cape Town as part of the Cape Festival, planted a padarao (cross) at the Bay in a re-enactment of the discoverer's arrival at the Cape in 1488.
Publisher
University of Cape Town. Libraries
Contributor
Date
29/03/1988
Type
Format
black-and-white photographs, Still image, Image/jpeg
Identifier
islandora:17945
Source
va_independent_S8E_043.jpg, S8E Dias Festivals
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Rights
Copyright held by Independent Newspapers. For information about acquiring a copy and/or permission to reproduce an image, please email argpix@inl.co.za

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