The special relationship between Portugal and South-Africa, started in 1488 when Bartolomeu Dias managed to round the Cape of Storms and landed at Mossel Bay. This enabled Vasco da Gama, in 1498, to explore a new trade route as far as India. For the following 150 years, the colonization of Angola and Mozambique were the focus points of Portuguese development in Southern-Africa. They navigated well and served the world, looking for new means of survival.
Much later, in 1974 and 1975, South-African Churches were involved in a huge humanitarian effort to help tens of thousands of Portuguese refugees,...