CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - JULY 03: ... So I come from a place where I do have a global vantage point, but I also come from a deeply underprivileged background, both economically, ...

But Cape Town’s setting—a dramatic coastline hugging Table Mountain National Park—is as picturesque as its history is problematic. Like the rest of South Africa, Cape Town is still ...

My 2020 book, The Lie of 1652, explores lesser-known aspects of South African history that challenge a number of untruths and misrepresentations, such as the so-called “empty land” theory, aka ...