Join author, journalist and printmaker Kevin Davie at The Cape Town Club for a storytelling dinner exploring Portuguese scribe João dos Santos' extraordinary account of his travels through Southern Africa.
Date: Friday, 3 October 2025
Time: 18h30 for 19h00
Menu: Two-course meal (drinks not included)
Venue: The Cape Town Club (18 Queen Victoria Street, Cape Town)
Tickets: Guests R300 | Members R250
From 1580, Dos Santos spent more than a decade in modern-day Mozambique, which included travelling up the Zambezi River to Tete and to the goldfields of Zimbabwe, where he saw so much gold being mined that he thought he'd discovered the biblical King Solomon's Mines.
Remarkably, Dos Santos's account, recorded in southern Africa 70 years before the arrival of Van Riebeeck, has all but vanished from the public record. His story, documenting the interface of two great empires, Portugal and Monomotapa, is all but unknown today.
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