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Remoteness from other parts of the world, frigid or fierce currents, and the presence of sharks are some of the obstacles that make an escape from island

BBC News Published image copyrightSA History Online David Stuurman, who has just had an airport named after him, was one of the first leaders of resistance to colonial expansion in South Africa, yet few people in the country know much about him, as the BBCs Mohammed Allie reports. To the colonial establishment of the late 18th and early 19th Centuries, David Stuurman was a criminal and a threat, but to the Khoi and Xhosa people (or amaXhosa) he achieved hero status for his brave and continued r...