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   Background:
   Dutch traders landed at the southern tip of modern day South Africa in
   1652 and established a stopover point on the spice route between the
   Netherlands and the East, founding the city of Cape Town.
  
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   Flag of South Africa: two equal width horizontal bands of red (top)
   and blue separated by a central green band which splits into a
   horizontal Y, the arms of which end at the corners of the hoist side;
   the Y embraces a black isosceles triangle from which the arms are