The castle was expanded when slaves replaced gold as the major object of commerce. It is the oldest European building in sub-Saharan Africa and was eventually captured by the Dutch in 1637.

In 2012, banker Paul Harris wrote to a friend in Australia who had sent him a concerned note after reading that South Africa had five more years before going over a cliff. The letter has been ...

This star-shaped fortress at the heart of Cape Town is the oldest surviving building in South Africa. Constructed in the late 17th century by the Dutch East India Company, the Castle of Good Hope ...