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How was South Africa discovered?

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14y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

While searching for a trade route to India, a Portuguese explorer named Bartolomeu Dias discovered it in 1487.

No colony was established until the arrival of Jan van Riebeeck of the Dutch East India Company on 6 April 1652.

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