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You are best placed to study the faces of Cape Town by sitting at a sidewalk café. Traders and business people, students and street children - a combination of faces that have the makings of a Benetton advertisement.
Cape Town’s forebears hail from the hot islands of Malaysia, coffee plantations and palm groves of East Africa, African savannah and crowded Indian villages, not to mention Dutch, German, British, and Lithuanian Jewish heritage. Some arrived in Cape Town as slaves or labourers, others as colonists and settlers. There is also the recent flood of new immigrants and refugees to consider, often displaced from countries like Congo and Angola.
For a more detialed guide on the history and people of Cape Town and South Africa, we also suggest reading this travel guide book.
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