Cape Town Explorer. The history of the city is as multifaceted and varied as its people. The Dutch East India Company initially built Cape Town as a supply hub for their ships traveling to Africa, India, and East Asia. This historic occasion in the middle of the 17th century signaled the start of an eventful and turbulent history that would eventually give rise to a democratic South Africa and be shaped by European colonization and the Apartheid era...
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