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Living under a rock

Seafarers from the flat plains of Europe had scant experience of heights before settling in Cape Town. If theyʼd just collaborated with the locals instead of subjugating them, theyʼd have understood why the slopes of Hoerikwaggo (the Khoisan name for Table Mountain meaning ʻmountain in the seaʼ)

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