Exactly 375 years ago, the Haarlem wrecked in Table Bay near Cape Town.
Historian Bart Gielen, AIMURE board member and ‘ambassador’ of the Haarlem Project in the Netherlands, talks in the Dutch radioprogram OVT about his article ‘Het schip aan de wieg van Zuid-Afrika ‘ (The ship that founded South Africa), published in Natioal Geographic Historia.pdf (April 2022).
For the ‘Shipwrecks Special Show. The search for the Harlem’ journalist Pippa Hudson talks with Bruno Werz in radioprogram Cape Talk.