Founded in 1652 as refreshment and refitting station for the Asia-bound ships of the Dutch East India Company, Cape Town is aptly called South Africa's “Mother City.
” Race relations there, under a system of chattel slavery (which accommodated communities of free blacks), set the pattern for the development of
South Africa
n society. Cape Town, too, gave birth to South African popular music, the styles that arose among the people of the colony's farms and thoroughfares...
