6. Willem Adriaan van der Stel, governor of the Cape Colony, became
a wealthy landowner. This is a modem, romanticized rendering of his
great estate, Vergelegen, thirty miles east of Cape Town. The governor
and his cronies are overseeing the slaves alongside the elegant
homestead. Van der Stel fell foul of the settlers and was recalled in
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