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/ 23 November 2004
Down here, on the Deep South Coast, the pre-holiday panic is on. Supermarkets are full of frantic buyers, local authorities, understandably a little torpid during the rest of the year, are giving a spit and polish to those corners of the Hibiscus Coast that need it. This year, however, it’s been different, very different — the out-of-town holiday-makers have all been beaten to it by the purple alien …
When Portuguese sailors first rounded the Cape in 1488 they called it Cabo Tormentosa for the storms that buffeted their medieval vessels. Now the trials and tribulations of those early mariners — people who could in fact be called the first new South Africans — are providing a major drawcard for modern-day adventurers on the Wild Coast.