But I saw all of it first during apartheid and all that beauty was deformed by very visible cruelties of the system which was older than apartheid. The beaches are scattered with the relics of ship-wrecks and the tragedies of lost lives …

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The Bittersweet Beauty of South Africa: Place of the Year 2009 …

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