Calling on Cape Town (1952)

James A. FitzPatrick: Self - Narrator

Quotes 

• James A. FitzPatrick : [at Groote Schuur]  The bronze plaque over the main entrance commemorates the arrival of Jan van Riebeeck, who was commissioned by the Dutch East India Company to establish the first white settlement in South Africa.

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  James A. FitzPatrick : Snugly situated at the southern extremity of Africa lies Cape Town, legislative capital of the Union of South Africa and the oldest European settlement in the southern half of what was formerly called the Dark Continent. Within the city and its suburbs, about 500,000 inhabitants, representing every nationality, color, and creed, are patiently struggling to work out their respective destinies.

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  James A. FitzPatrick : The Rhodes Memorial at Cape Town commemorates the memory of South Africa's great pioneer and benefactor. And in conclusion, we can think of no more fitting words to his memory than the ones that are inscribed on this impressive memorial: "His immense and brooding spirit still shall quicken and control. / Living, he was the land; and dead, his soul shall be her soul." And it is with this thought that we now conclude our visit to Cape Town, mother city of South Africa.

• James A. FitzPatrick : Many of the grape pickers today are descendants of the natives who first helped the Dutch winemakers to develop the vineyards of Constantia. And they have had the advantage of learning their trade at a very early age.

• James A. FitzPatrick : Here the poet Kipling wrote: "Where the white sands of Muizenberg are spun before the gale", Cecil John Rhodes breathed his last. He died a lonely bachelor in this humble little cottage in nineteen hundred and two, at the age of forty-nine years. His immortal last words were: "So much to do; so little done."