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2023-07-31 20:05:01 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
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Credit to @xspotsdamark for this. The following is an image of a 16th-century Portuguese map of the Motopa empire: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Portuguese_map_of_SA_529.JPG It encompasses most of South Africa. Europeans had a tiny settlement in Cape Town. Claims that Europeans came to South Africa before the Bantu are unfounded.
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