
On a nostalgic return journey, Janice Warman wonders why the Eastern Cape is not thronged with tourists…
The Eastern Cape has a bloody past: it’s where the English were settled to defend the frontier against the Xhosas in the 1820s, and where the terrible forced removals of the apartheid years happened.

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