On the farce that is Heritage Day, no mention was made by the media or any politician of the fact that this year marks the 200th anniversary of the arrival of the British settlers in Algoa Bay.
HE Hockly in his history, The Story of the British Settlers of 1820 in SA relates that 21 ships arrived between April 9 and late June of 1820...
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