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Title: Re-enactment of the discoverer's arrival, Cape Town
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.
Identifier: islandora:17945

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