What makes the Cape wine region the most unique in the world?
The Cape successfully straddles the New and the Old Worlds in a classicism which has earned it international accolades.
Dawn Denton is a Content Creator. She writes, blogs, creates online courses, podcasts and is owner of Celebrate Southern Africa (annual market in Wiltshire, a podcast, regular interviews of ‘My African Dream’ and a popular website). Dawn is also the licence holder for TEDxFrome.
The Cape successfully straddles the New and the Old Worlds in a classicism which has earned it international accolades.
I was born in a deeply divided South Africa. A country that was clear about the division – whites and non-whites. But if you were Chinese, you were ‘more white than black’ so you were an ‘honorary white’.
What makes Southern Africans unique? Is it how we see the world? Is it the norms and values instilled in us by our parents in Africa? Is it the African ‘village’ that raised us? Is it the solid foundations our DNA give us, in a unique existence on the southern tip of the continent?