In response to recent accusations that Cape Town is a racist city, Bryan Rostron (Black Petals) rather cheekily explains the city’s demographics by suggesting that Noah’s Ark marooned on Table Mountain and not, as is thought, Mount Ararat:
In a dazzling eureka moment I may have figured out where Noah’s Ark finally reached dry land, as described in Genesis, perched atop a mountain. Yes, there are claims for many parts of the world. Biblical literalists still dig on Mount Ararat in Turkey.
But from recent evidence I’m pretty sure it must have been Table Mountain. The earliest shipping exploit round the Cape was claimed for the Phoenicians, in the seventh century BC, by the Greek historian Herodotus. He says the Pharaoh Necho instructed those seafarers to go round Africa.
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